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Eastwood, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Kalamazoo Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49048. It stands on Portage Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kalamazoo quadrangle. 6,366 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Eastwood within Kalamazoo County

Population over time

3 figures

Eastwood grew from 6,265 to 6,366 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.

YearPeople Change
20006,265
20106,340+75 (+1%)
20206,366+26 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

41 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Eastwood between 2014 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0001533 - 2019
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALAMAZOO DPS 0078926 - 2018
31 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0001522 - 2019
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0001497 - 2019
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALAMAZOO DPS 0006279 - 2019
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALAMAZOO DPS 0054887 - 2018
15 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0001171 - 2019
14 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0001167 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Eastwood: 6 producers, 1 past producer. 6 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Balkema Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bynre PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Consumers Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kalamazoo County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peters Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ravine Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kalamazoo County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eastwood in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 flash flood. 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 2008Flash FloodEastwood$50,000Flash flooding in Kalamazoo caused water to reach the windows and windshields of cars, several of which became submerged underwater beneath the Norfolk Southern Railroad viaduct on East Michigan Avenue. This occurred near the East Michigan Avenue and Riverview Drive intersection.

Every storm recorded in Kalamazoo 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
Lakewood1.8 miles20
Parchment2.0 miles20
Kalamazoo2.1 miles20
Comstock2.3 miles20
Northwood2.9 miles20
Milwood3.1 miles20
East Cooper3.2 miles20
East Comstock3.4 miles21

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 EastwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2499096The 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 625303. 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.