Evart, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Evart City. It lies in ZIP code area 49631. It stands on Twin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Evart quadrangle. 1,742 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.
On record in Evart
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 1 record
- Evart Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2025
Population over time
2 figuresEvart fell from 1,903 to 1,742 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 | 1,903 | |
| 2020 | 1,742 | -161 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Evart quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Evart quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
70 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Evart between 1992 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HERSEY TOWNSHIP FD 0000117 - 2019 |
| 5 August 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | EVART VFD 466 - 2019 |
| 18 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OSCEOLA 10 |
| 4 July 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 July 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | EVART VFD 446 - 2019 |
| 24 July 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Evart: 1 producer. All of them 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seagraves Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evart in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2003 | Hail | Evart | $20,000 | A report of seven eighths inch diameter hail was received three miles northeast of Evart. One inch diameter hail was reported three miles west of Hersey. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evart | $2,500 | Large trees downed across a road near Evart, in Osceola Township. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evart | $2,000 | A tree and power line were blown down near Evart. |
| July 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Evart | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evart | $1,000 | Power lines were downed in Evart, resulting in power outages. The same thunderstorm sparked lightning fires in LeRoy, in the northwest portion of Osceola County. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evart | - | Law enforcement estimated wind gusts in excess of 60 mph. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Evart | - | Nickel sized hail reported. |
| September 1997 | Hail | Evart | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sears | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Gibos Corners (historical) | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Chippewa | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Avondale | 8.1 miles | 11 | |
| Slaybaugh Corner | 9.4 miles | 13 | |
| Hersey | 10.5 miles | 14 | |
| Reed City | 13.5 miles | 13 | |
| Pisgah Heights | 13.5 miles | 11 |
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 Evart | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2269996 | 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 625681. 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.







