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Ferrysburg, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Ferrysburg City. It lies in ZIP code area 49456. It lies near Harbor Island. The Survey maps it on the Grand Haven quadrangle. 2,952 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Ferrysburg within Ottawa County

Population over time

2 figures

Ferrysburg grew from 2,892 to 2,952 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
20102,892
20202,952+60 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Ferrysburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRING LAKE TOWNSHIP FD 20066 - 2020
7 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND HAVEN DPS 191309 - 2019
7 August 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTON SHORES FD 0001666 - 2018
6 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND HAVEN TWP FIRE/RESCUE 19900 - 2019
9 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFERRYSBURG FD 19131 - 2019
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTON SHORES FD 0001428 - 2018
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRING LAKE TOWNSHIP FD 202331 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Ferrysburg: 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, 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
Construction Aggregates Corp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Construction Aggregates Corp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J V Burkett Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ferrysburg SiteSilicaProducerSedimentary
Holiday Hills SiteSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
North Sag SiteSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
Rosy MoundSilicaProducerSedimentary
Rycenga SiteSilicaProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ferrysburg in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 2 hail, 1 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
April 2013FloodFerrysburg$5,000,000Significant flooding occurred on rivers and streams across Ottawa county due to heavy rainfall from early to mid April.
July 2006HailFerrysburg$5,000The public reported three quarters inch hail in Ferrysburg.
May 1998HailFerrysburg-Local broadcast media relayed a report of 1-inch hail in Ferrysburg which broke a few windows of a local resident's home.

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Spring Lake1.3 miles12
Grand Haven1.5 miles12
Rosy Mound3.8 miles12
Snug Harbor4.1 miles12
Clark Corners5.8 miles12
Nunica8.1 miles10
Agnew8.6 miles11
Robinson9.9 miles11

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 FerrysburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2878719The 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 625927. 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.