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Grand Ledge, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Grand Ledge City. It lies in ZIP code area 48837. It stands on Sandstone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wacousta quadrangle. 7,784 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 833 feet above sea level.

Grand Ledge within Eaton County

On record in Grand Ledge

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Grand Ledge fell from 7,786 to 7,784 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
20107,786
20207,784-2 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

20 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Grand Ledge between 2018 and 2019, burning about 20 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/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND LEDGE FD 0002379 - 2019
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1827002 - 2018
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1827004 - 2018
1 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1826672 - 2018
28 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 199847 - 2019
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND LEDGE FD 0002191 - 2018
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1825682 - 2018
5 May 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 198791 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eaton County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Grand Ledge: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz. 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
Pryor Brothers PitQuartzPast Producer
Harman Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pryor Brothers, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pryor Brothers, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
American Sewer Pipe Co Shale PitClayPast Producer
Briggs Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
Grand Ledge Clay Prod Co Shale PitClayPast Producer
Lawson Clay PitClayProducer
Lawson Road MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Eaton County

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Ledge in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash 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
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$50,000no account filed
May 2000HailGrand Ledge$40,000no account filed
June 2005HailGrand Ledge$25,000Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported by a spotter seven miles west of Lansing.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$25,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$15,000Several trees and power lines were blown down across the county.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$15,000no account filed
April 2023HailGrand Ledge$10,000Law enforcement reported one inch diameter hail near Grand Ledge.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$10,000Law enforcement reported that a couple of trees were blown down in Grand Ledge.
August 2003HailGrand Ledge$10,000Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported three miles southeast of Grand Ledge.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$10,000Law enforcement reported that several trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts in Grand Ledge. One inch hail was reported by a spotter in Potterville.
June 2005HailGrand Ledge$10,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$3,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$2,500One large tree downed, pulling down power lines, in Grand Ledge.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$500A trained weather spotter reported small trees were downed by thunderstorm wind gusts. Nearby in Charlotte, amateur radio operators reported 40 to 50 mph wind gusts with this thunderstorm.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$500no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge-Several large trees down in the Grand Ledge area.
April 2008HailGrand Ledge-no account filed
February 1997Flash FloodGrand Ledge-no account filed
July 1997HailGrand Ledge-no account filed
May 1997HailGrand Ledge-no account filed
August 1996Flash FloodGrand Ledge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Eaton 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
Oneida Center2.5 miles10
Delta Center4.8 miles14
Delta Mills5.3 miles11
Waverly6.7 miles14
Bretton Woods7.1 miles14
Needmore7.6 miles10
Millett7.6 miles14
West Windsor7.8 miles14

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 Grand LedgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3295695The 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 627094. 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.