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Grant, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Grant City. It lies in ZIP code area 49327. The Survey maps it on the Grant quadrangle. 952 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Grant within Newaygo County

Population over time

2 figures

Grant grew from 894 to 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
2010894
2020952+58 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

55 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Grant between 2001 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 5 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 use24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning11
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
14 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLAND-GRANT FIRE DISTRICT 237 - 2018
3 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLAND-GRANT FIRE DISTRICT 246 - 2020
17 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWAYGO FIRE DISTRICT 290 - 2020
17 July 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCATALPA
13 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWAYGO FIRE DISTRICT 298 - 2018
10 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLAND-GRANT FIRE DISTRICT 188 - 2018
30 June 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLAND-GRANT FIRE DISTRICT 173 - 2018
25 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWAYGO FIRE DISTRICT 248 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newaygo County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Grant: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Grant Tile Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Cousineau Gravel, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yerington Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newaygo County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grant in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2014Thunderstorm WindGrant$200,000Roofs were blown off multiple structures and campers were blown over. Several trees were blown down across southern Newaygo county.
November 2013Tornado (EF0)Grant$50,000A severe thunderstorm produced multiple brief EF-0 tornadoes along a more than 50 mile path from Muskegon county northeast through Newaygo county into Mecosta county. The tornadoes were on the ground for very short periods of time. Mostly tree damage was incurred but there was also damage to several buildings and fences.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGrant$15,000Several trees and power lines downed in the city of Grant and Grant Township. Trees were blown down across Michigan Highway 37. A trained weather spotter reported a 65 mph wind gust as measured by his local anemometer.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGrant$10,000Several trees were blown down.
September 2006HailGrant$10,000Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported by the media six miles west of Grant.
October 2006HailGrant$10,000Three quarters inch hail was reported in Grant.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindGrant$10,000no account filed
August 2002Tornado (F0)Grant$2,000A very weak F0 tornado briefly touched down in Elise Township, 9 miles east of Grant, in Newaygo county during the late evening hours. It blew down one tree, but caused no other damage. There were no injuries or fatalities.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindGrant$2,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindGrant-Trees and Branches down in the county.
August 2023HailGrant-One inch diameter hail was reported near Grant.
September 2021HailGrant-One inch diameter hail was reported near Grant.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindGrant-A few trees were downed by the winds in the village of Grant.

Every storm recorded in Newaygo 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
Ashland2.0 miles12
Ashland Center2.2 miles12
Sun4.8 miles12
Newaygo5.8 miles12
Bridgeton6.7 miles12
Bishop7.7 miles12
McLean9.1 miles12
Ensley Center10.0 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 GrantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1922585The 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 627144. 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.