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.
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
Climax Post Office Buildinglisted 1999
Population over time
2 figuresClimax 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 767 | |
| 2020 | 712 | -55 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1918 USGS Leonidas quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Leonidas quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Leonidas quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Leonidas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Climax quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Kalamazoo quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 2006Regional 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 use | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 262 - 2020 |
| 26 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 260 - 2020 |
| 30 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 225 - 2020 |
| 2 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLIMAX TOWNSHIP FD 0000079 - 2019 |
| 16 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | EMMETT TOWNSHIP DPS 00570 - 2019 |
| 12 May 2018 | Fireworks | 40 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | KALAMAZOO 01 - FAD FIRE |
| 9 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 148 - 2019 |
| 26 April 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 119 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climax | $50,000 | Numerous power outages were reported and several trees were blown down. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Climax | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Lightning | Climax | $20,000 | Climax 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 2005 | Hail | Climax | $5,000 | A second severe thunderstorm for the day in Kalamazoo county produced three quarters inch diameter hail in Climax. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Climax | - | The public reported one inch diameter hail near Climax. |
| February 2024 | Hail | Climax | - | 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 2012 | Hail | Climax | - | Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported by a trained spotter just northeast of Climax. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooks Mill | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Scotts | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Galesburg | 5.6 miles | 21 | |
| Augusta | 6.8 miles | 22 | |
| Lawndale | 7.5 miles | 21 | |
| Gardners Corners | 7.6 miles | 14 | |
| Howlandsburg | 7.6 miles | 21 | |
| Pavilion | 8.0 miles | 14 |
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 Climax | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2409907 | 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 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.








