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Forest Hills, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Ada Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49301. It stands on Honey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cascade quadrangle. 28,573 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Forest Hills within Kent County

On record in Forest Hills

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Forest Hills grew from 25,867 to 28,573 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
201025,867
202028,573+2,706 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

34 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Forest Hills between 2018 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLOWELL AREA FD 472 - 2018
20 July 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCASCADE CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 1208 - 2018
24 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCASCADE CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 1057 - 2018
17 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCASCADE CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 893 - 2020
18 May 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCASCADE CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 816 - 2018
18 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADA TOWNSHIP FD 0000246 - 2018
13 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCASCADE CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 716 - 2020
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCASCADE CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 693 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent 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 Forest Hills: 7 producers, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Grand Rap Clay Prod Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Chadwick Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Great Lakes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Katz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mathews Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pickett and Schreur Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pickett and Schreur Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pickett and Shreur Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kent 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
Ada0.4 miles13
Cascade3.3 miles13
Eastmont3.6 miles16
East Paris5.4 miles16
Whitneyville6.3 miles12
East Grand Rapids6.5 miles16
Cannonsburg6.6 miles10
McCords6.8 miles12

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 Forest HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2112536The 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 1867318. 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.