Dowling, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Baltimore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49058. The Survey maps it on the Dowling quadrangle. 351 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 952 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDowling fell from 374 to 351 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 | 374 | |
| 2020 | 351 | -23 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1951 USGS Hastings quadrangle1:62500, 5 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 Dowling quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
23 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Dowling between 2002 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ORANGEVILLE TOWNSHIP VFD 0000250 - 2019 |
| 8 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HASTINGS FD 0000205 - 2018 |
| 2 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DELTON FD 0000172 - 2018 |
| 9 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dowling in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2000: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2000 | Hail | Dowling | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dowling | - | A local radio news announcer (also trained weather spotter) in Barry County reported a 60-mph wind gust in Dowling, located in Baltimore Township, 7 miles south of Hastings. Numerous trees were reportedly downed in the Dowling area. Approximately 4,600 homes lost power at the height of the storm in Barry 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vickery Landing | 1.6 miles | 12 | |
| Lacey | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Cedar Creek | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Banfield | 4.5 miles | 19 | |
| Quimby | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Schultz | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Maple Grove | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Cloverdale | 7.4 miles | 13 |
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 Dowling | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8770550 | 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 624850. 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.





