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Comstock Park, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Plainfield Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49321. It stands on Strawberry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Springs SW quadrangle. 10,500 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Comstock Park within Kent County

Population over time

3 figures

Comstock Park fell from 10,674 to 10,500 between 2000 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
200010,674
201010,088-586 (-5%)
202010,500+412 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

64 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Comstock Park between 2018 and 2020, burning about 66 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 use35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Natural3
Smoking2
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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 729 - 2020
16 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND RAPIDS FD 0016112 - 2018
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 648 - 2020
23 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 689 - 2020
18 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWALKER CITY FD 378 - 2020
17 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 773 - 2019
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPLAINFIELD FD 1602 - 2018
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPLAINFIELD FD 1598 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Comstock Park: 8 producers, 1 unknown. 8 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
Bird PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Butterworth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Coit Avenue Gravel & Aggregate PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Devries PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Dredge OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Rapids Gravel CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Norman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pickett and Schreur Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pickett and Schreur Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Comstock Park in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 2003: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2001Tornado (F1)Comstock Park$200,000A tornado touched down near the intersection of I-96 and Leonard streets. It was classified as a F1 tornado, producing maximum estimated wind speeds of 80 m.p.h. It had a path length of only a quarter of a mile, with a width of 50 yards. Roof damage was incurred to an apartment complex, and there was also some tree damage.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindComstock Park$40,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across Kent county. A 55 m.p.h. wind gust was measured one mile northwest of Comstock Park and wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. were estimated.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindComstock Park$2,000no account filed
August 1993HailComstock Park-Pea- to marble-size hail fell in Comstock Park.

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
Alpine2.5 miles16
Wilder Center3.3 miles16
Northview3.7 miles16
Belmont4.1 miles16
Grand Rapids5.2 miles17
Kinney5.4 miles14
Englishville5.5 miles16
Walker5.8 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 Comstock ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2383121The 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 623677. 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.