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East Jordan, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in East Jordan City. It lies in ZIP code area 49727. It stands on Jordan River. The Survey maps it on the Boyne City quadrangle. 2,239 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

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East Jordan within Charlevoix County

On record in East Jordan

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

East Jordan fell from 2,351 to 2,239 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
20102,351
20202,239-112 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of East Jordan between 1996 and 2018, burning about 51 acres in total. None 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLEVOIX 01 WILDERNESS
10 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2006Debris and open burning12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLEVOIX 0002
18 June 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLEVOIX 02
25 May 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLEVOIX 05
8 April 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlevoix County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of East Jordan: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Unnamed Shale PitClayPast Producer
Norman Bartlett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Charlevoix County

Storms near this place

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Jordan in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 13 hail, 10 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016HailEast Jordan$45,000Some vehicles were damaged by very large hail.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan$40,000Large tree blown down onto home, and a roof blown off a campground building, amid other wind damage reports from the East Jordan area. Trained spotter reported a gust to 52 mph in the Boyne City area, and the AWOS sensor at the Boyne Falls airport reported a gust to 51mph at 21:34. Several power outages were noted in the East Jordan area during the evening and overnight, prior to icing-related outages.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan$20,000Many trees and power lines were downed.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan$15,000Barn roof blown off.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan$2,000Several trees down with a wind speed of 57 mph measured by a personal weather station 13 feet above the ground.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan$1,000A large tree was blown down.
June 2011HailEast Jordan-A small branch was also downed by wind.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan-A spotter measured a 63 mph wind gust.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan-Several trees were downed.
July 2003HailEast Jordan-Numerous thunderstorms developed across northern Lower Michigan in the evening hours, but only one became severe, producing nickel-sized hail in East Jordan.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan-Numerous trees snapped off and/or uprooted around the intersection of M-66 and M-32. Many powerlines also down.
September 2017HailEast Jordan-no account filed
October 2016HailEast Jordan-no account filed
June 2011HailEast Jordan-no account filed
June 2011HailEast Jordan-no account filed
June 2011HailEast Jordan-no account filed
June 2008HailEast Jordan-no account filed
March 2007HailEast Jordan-no account filed
August 2002HailEast Jordan-no account filed
August 2000HailEast Jordan-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan-no account filed
July 1996HailEast Jordan-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Charlevoix 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
Advance5.0 miles13
Boyne City7.1 miles13
Ironton7.5 miles13
Phelps8.5 miles13
Horton Bay9.0 miles12
Wildwood9.8 miles12
Boyne Falls11.0 miles11
Zenith Heights11.2 miles12

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 East JordanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1813148The 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 625200. 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.