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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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
East Jordan Lumber Company Store Buildinglisted 2008
Votruba Blocklisted 2008
Population over time
2 figuresEast 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,351 | |
| 2020 | 2,239 | -112 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Boyne City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Boyne City NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Boyne City quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Charlevoix quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 1996Regional 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 burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHARLEVOIX 01 WILDERNESS |
| 10 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 June 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHARLEVOIX 0002 |
| 18 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHARLEVOIX 02 |
| 25 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHARLEVOIX 05 |
| 8 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Norman Bartlett Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Smith Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
23 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Hail | East Jordan | $45,000 | Some vehicles were damaged by very large hail. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Jordan | $40,000 | Large 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Jordan | $20,000 | Many trees and power lines were downed. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Jordan | $15,000 | Barn roof blown off. |
| April 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Jordan | $2,000 | Several trees down with a wind speed of 57 mph measured by a personal weather station 13 feet above the ground. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Jordan | $1,000 | A large tree was blown down. |
| June 2011 | Hail | East Jordan | - | A small branch was also downed by wind. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Jordan | - | A spotter measured a 63 mph wind gust. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Jordan | - | Several trees were downed. |
| July 2003 | Hail | East 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Jordan | - | Numerous trees snapped off and/or uprooted around the intersection of M-66 and M-32. Many powerlines also down. |
| September 2017 | Hail | East Jordan | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | East Jordan | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | East Jordan | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | East Jordan | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | East Jordan | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | East Jordan | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | East Jordan | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | East Jordan | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | East Jordan | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Jordan | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | East Jordan | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Jordan | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advance | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Boyne City | 7.1 miles | 13 | |
| Ironton | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Phelps | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Horton Bay | 9.0 miles | 12 | |
| Wildwood | 9.8 miles | 12 | |
| Boyne Falls | 11.0 miles | 11 | |
| Zenith Heights | 11.2 miles | 12 |
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 Jordan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1813148 | 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 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.





