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Douglas, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Douglas City. It lies in ZIP code area 49406. It stands on Tannery Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saugatuck quadrangle. 1,378 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Douglas within Allegan County

On record in Douglas

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Douglas grew from 1,232 to 1,378 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
20101,232
20201,378+146 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Douglas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
7 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN #8
7 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAMILTON FD 0000149 - 2018
16 May 1992Recreation and ceremony12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP FD 2018256 - 2018
28 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 02
13 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000094 - 2019
13 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000093 - 2019
7 March 2012Debris and open burning8.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 01

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan 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 Douglas: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Laketown SiteSilicaProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Allegan County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douglas in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 7 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
August 2016Tornado (EF0)Douglas$75,000An EF-0 tornado touched down briefly near Riverside road. One outbuilding was destroyed and two homes incurred minor siding and roofing damage from debris and fallen trees. Significant tree damage was observed along a path that was about a quarter of a mile long and 25 to 50 yards wide.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindDouglas$15,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindDouglas$5,000Several trees were blown down along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
October 1996Thunderstorm WindDouglas$3,000no account filed
September 2022Thunderstorm WindDouglas$2,000Several power lines were blown down in and near Douglas.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindDouglas-Trees snapped and uprooted across Saugatuck Township.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindDouglas-As a strong gust front swept across the county, numerous trees and branches were reported down countywide by both law enforcement and trained spotters. Some roads were blocked by fallen trees and had to be cleared by the county Road Commission. Additionally, some scattered power outages were observed.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDouglas-State Police reported that a large tree fell on a car near downtown Saugatuck. They also reported that another large tree was blown down and blocked the intersection of 128th and 30th streets.
April 1994HailDouglas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allegan 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
Saugatuck0.8 miles15
Shorewood1.2 miles15
Beachmont1.2 miles15
Oxbow1.7 miles15
Old Saugatuck1.7 miles15
Singapore (historical)2.4 miles15
Macks Landing2.6 miles15
Pier Cove4.2 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 DouglasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2172413The 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 624823. 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.