Gobles, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Gobles City. It lies in ZIP code area 49055. The Survey maps it on the Gobles West quadrangle. 851 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 814 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGobles grew from 829 to 851 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 | 829 | |
| 2020 | 851 | +22 (+3%) |
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.
- 1946 USGS Gobles quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Gobles quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Gobles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Gobles West quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Kalamazoo quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Gobles between 2003 and 2019, burning about 14 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | VAN BUREN 01 - 28TH ST |
| 5 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000678 - 2019 |
| 8 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GOBLES-PINE GROVE FD 0000046 - 2019 |
| 3 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BLOOMINGDALE TOWNSHIP FD 0000032 - 2019 |
| 15 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BLOOMINGDALE TOWNSHIP FD 0000036 - 2019 |
| 4 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GOBLES-PINE GROVE FD 0000023 - 2018 |
| 27 March 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HAMILTON FD 1900100 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gobles in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2011: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gobles | $50,000 | Numerous trees were blown down in Bloomingdale and Gobles. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Gobles | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Gobles | $15,000 | One inch diameter hail was reported in Gobles. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gobles | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down three miles north of Gobles including one which was blown down onto a car. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Gobles | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Gobles | $5,000 | A severe storm produced seven eighths inch diameter hail one mile west of Gobles. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gobles | - | Law enforcement reported isolated tree damage and power lines down in the Gobles area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Grove | 1.0 miles | 14 | |
| Kendall | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| North Lake | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Bloomingdale | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Mentha | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Glendale | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Berlamont | 6.4 miles | 13 | |
| Almena | 7.2 miles | 14 |
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 Gobles | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3308123 | 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 626910. 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.
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.







