Clarksville, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Campbell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48815. The Survey maps it on the Lake Odessa quadrangle. 411 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresClarksville grew from 394 to 411 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 394 | |
| 2020 | 411 | +17 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1916 USGS Ionia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1918 USGS Ionia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Ionia quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Lake Odessa quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Clarksville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 3 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 use | 7 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMPBELL TOWNSHIP FD 111 - 2020 |
| 8 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMPBELL TOWNSHIP FD 65 - 2019 |
| 4 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMPBELL TOWNSHIP FD 61 - 2019 |
| 2 April 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SARANAC FD 0000165 - 2019 |
| 2 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SARANAC FD 0000164 - 2019 |
| 8 March 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMPBELL TOWNSHIP FD 33 - 2020 |
| 8 March 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMPBELL TOWNSHIP FD 31 - 2020 |
| 8 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMPBELL TOWNSHIP FD 32 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Clarksville: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ionia Co. Road Comm. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarksville in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksville | $10,000,000 | Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down. 15 power poles were snapped and numerous trees were snapped or uprooted in Saranac. In Portland several trees were also snapped or uprooted. |
| May 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Clarksville | $100,000 | A tornado that passed 2 miles northwest of Clarksville cut a silo in half, and lifted the roofs off of two barns. Several trees were also damaged. It was a F0 tornado with a length of one mile and width of 50 yards. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksville | $25,000 | The Ionia county road commission estimated that about two dozen trees were blown down across the county. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksville | $20,000 | Several trees were downed across Ionia county, including one that fell on a car with passengers, but no injuries were reported. |
| March 2003 | Hail | Clarksville | $10,000 | Three quarters inch hail was reported in both Clarksville and Saranac. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksville | $5,000 | Several trees where blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts of around 58 mph over the southwest section of Ionia county. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksville | $2,500 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Clarksville | - | Hail up to an inch and three quarters in diameter was reported. |
| November 2013 | Hail | Clarksville | - | A trained spotter reported three quarters inch hail near Clarksville. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksville | - | The Clarksville Record reported downed trees and power lines with widespread power outages. A tree fell on a 500 gallon propane gas tank at a residence on West Cross St. in the village of Clarksville. It punctured the tank and released 250 gallons of gas. The surrounding area was evacuated for fear of explosion. A tree fell on a residence on South Main St. and did considerable damage to the home. Damage estimates were not available. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campbell Corners | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Elmdale | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Saranac | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Lake Odessa | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| Berlin Center | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Tremaine Corners | 9.8 miles | 12 | |
| West Sebewa | 10.0 miles | 13 | |
| South Ionia | 12.7 miles | 12 |
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 Clarksville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2262960 | The 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 623385. 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.







