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Climax, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Climax Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49034. The Survey maps it on the Climax quadrangle. 712 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 965 feet above sea level.

Climax within Kalamazoo County

On record in Climax

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Climax fell from 767 to 712 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
2010767
2020712-55 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Climax between 2006 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 2 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 use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Fireworks1
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
27 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 262 - 2020
26 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 260 - 2020
30 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 225 - 2020
2 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIMAX TOWNSHIP FD 0000079 - 2019
16 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT TOWNSHIP DPS 00570 - 2019
12 May 2018Fireworks40 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALAMAZOO 01 - FAD FIRE
9 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 148 - 2019
26 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 119 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Climax in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 hail, 1 lightning, 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 2020Thunderstorm WindClimax$50,000Numerous power outages were reported and several trees were blown down.
May 2001HailClimax$25,000no account filed
September 1997LightningClimax$20,000Climax Township Firefighters were called to 6680 S. 38th Street in Climax at 4:55 PM EDT for a house fire which started when lightning struck the home. Lightning struck a window frame near a bedroom and sparked a fire which did $ 20, 000 in damages.
May 2005HailClimax$5,000A second severe thunderstorm for the day in Kalamazoo county produced three quarters inch diameter hail in Climax.
August 2024HailClimax-The public reported one inch diameter hail near Climax.
February 2024HailClimax-The public two miles east of Scotts and south of Climax reported that hail up to an inch in diameter briefly covered the ground.
March 2012HailClimax-Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported by a trained spotter just northeast of Climax.
June 1998HailClimax-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kalamazoo 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
Cooks Mill4.9 miles14
Scotts5.1 miles14
Galesburg5.6 miles21
Augusta6.8 miles22
Lawndale7.5 miles21
Gardners Corners7.6 miles14
Howlandsburg7.6 miles21
Pavilion8.0 miles14

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 ClimaxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2409907The 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 623472. 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.

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.