Ellsworth, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Banks Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49729. It stands on Skinner Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ellsworth quadrangle. 367 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEllsworth grew from 349 to 367 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 | 349 | |
| 2020 | 367 | +18 (+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 NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Ellsworth quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Charlevoix quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Ellsworth between 1995 and 2019, burning about 76 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 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 |
| 26 June 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BANKS TOWNSHIP FD 18-0007 - 2018 |
| 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
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ellsworth: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drenth Bros Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ellsworth Shale Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Smith Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellsworth in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Lightning | Ellsworth | $80,000 | Lightning struck a home in Banks Township, igniting a fire that destroyed the home. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellsworth | $15,000 | Reports of trees downed, with a report of a tree on a house northeast of Ellsworth. Time estimated via radar. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Ellsworth | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atwood | 5.3 miles | 13 | |
| Central Lake | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Eastport | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| Torch Lake | 8.6 miles | 12 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 8.7 miles | 12 | |
| Snowflake (historical) | 9.4 miles | 12 | |
| Finkton | 10.2 miles | 12 | |
| Chestonia | 11.5 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 Ellsworth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3319763 | 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 625495. 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.





