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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.

Clarksville within Ionia County

Population over time

2 figures

Clarksville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010394
2020411+17 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

12 since 2018

Regional 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 use7
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
26 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMPBELL TOWNSHIP FD 111 - 2020
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMPBELL TOWNSHIP FD 65 - 2019
4 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMPBELL TOWNSHIP FD 61 - 2019
2 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSARANAC FD 0000165 - 2019
2 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSARANAC FD 0000164 - 2019
8 March 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMPBELL TOWNSHIP FD 33 - 2020
8 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMPBELL TOWNSHIP FD 31 - 2020
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMPBELL TOWNSHIP FD 32 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ionia 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ionia Co. Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ionia County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Thunderstorm WindClarksville$10,000,000Numerous 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 2001Tornado (F0)Clarksville$100,000A 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 2015Thunderstorm WindClarksville$25,000The Ionia county road commission estimated that about two dozen trees were blown down across the county.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindClarksville$20,000Several trees were downed across Ionia county, including one that fell on a car with passengers, but no injuries were reported.
March 2003HailClarksville$10,000Three quarters inch hail was reported in both Clarksville and Saranac.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindClarksville$10,000no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindClarksville$5,000Several trees where blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts of around 58 mph over the southwest section of Ionia county.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindClarksville$2,500no account filed
June 2024HailClarksville-Hail up to an inch and three quarters in diameter was reported.
November 2013HailClarksville-A trained spotter reported three quarters inch hail near Clarksville.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindClarksville-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.

Every storm recorded in Ionia 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
Campbell Corners2.6 miles12
Elmdale3.7 miles12
Saranac6.2 miles12
Lake Odessa6.8 miles12
Berlin Center7.0 miles12
Tremaine Corners9.8 miles12
West Sebewa10.0 miles13
South Ionia12.7 miles12

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 ClarksvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2262960The 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.