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Cedar Springs, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cedar Springs City. It lies in ZIP code area 49319. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Springs quadrangle. 3,627 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Cedar Springs within Kent County

Population over time

2 figures

Cedar Springs grew from 3,509 to 3,627 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20103,509
20203,627+118 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

34 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Springs between 2009 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
17 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALGOMA TOWNSHIP FD 551 - 2020
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPENCER TOWNSHIP FD 0000317 - 2019
26 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALGOMA TOWNSHIP FD 488 - 2020
14 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCEDAR SPRINGS FD 0039619 - 2019
1 August 2020Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALGOMA TOWNSHIP FD 435 - 2020
8 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALGOMA TOWNSHIP FD 377 - 2020
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOLON TOWNSHIP FD 0000262 - 2018
7 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALGOMA TOWNSHIP FD 375 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cedar Springs: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pickett and Schreur Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Springs in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1996Thunderstorm WindCedar Springs$1,000no account filed
August 1993HailCedar Springs-no account filed
August 1993HailCedar Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kent County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Solon Center3.6 miles15
Sheffield3.8 miles11
Edgerton4.4 miles15
Sand Lake5.1 miles12
Evans5.4 miles11
Rockford7.1 miles16
Harvard7.4 miles11
Childsdale8.3 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Cedar SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2169628The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 622953. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.