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.
Population over time
3 figuresComstock 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 10,674 | |
| 2010 | 10,088 | -586 (-5%) |
| 2020 | 10,500 | +412 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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 Cedar Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Cedar Springs SW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
64 since 2018Regional 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 use | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 729 - 2020 |
| 16 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GRAND RAPIDS FD 0016112 - 2018 |
| 9 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 648 - 2020 |
| 23 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 689 - 2020 |
| 18 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WALKER CITY FD 378 - 2020 |
| 17 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 773 - 2019 |
| 9 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PLAINFIELD FD 1602 - 2018 |
| 9 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PLAINFIELD FD 1598 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bird Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Butterworth Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Coit Avenue Gravel & Aggregate Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Devries Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Dredge Operations | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Grand Rapids Gravel Company | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Norman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pickett and Schreur Inc. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pickett and Schreur Inc. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Comstock Park | $200,000 | A 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Comstock Park | $40,000 | Numerous 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Comstock Park | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Comstock Park | - | Pea- to marble-size hail fell in Comstock Park. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Wilder Center | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Northview | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Belmont | 4.1 miles | 16 | |
| Grand Rapids | 5.2 miles | 17 | |
| Kinney | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Englishville | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Walker | 5.8 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 Comstock Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2383121 | 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 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.








