Grass Lake, Michigan
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Grass Lake Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49240. The Survey maps it on the Grass Lake quadrangle. 1,105 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 991 feet above sea level.
On record in Grass Lake
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
Grass Lake Public Schoollisted 1984
Vinkle, Henry and Aurora (Walker), Houselisted 2017
Population over time
2 figuresGrass Lake fell from 1,173 to 1,105 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 | 1,173 | |
| 2020 | 1,105 | -68 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1919 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1922 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1942 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Grass Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Grass Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
24 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Grass Lake between 1996 and 2020, burning about 172 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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 use | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GRASS LAKE FD 0000177 - 2018 |
| 3 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GRASS LAKE FD 106 - 2020 |
| 8 April 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BLACKMAN-LEONI TOWNSHIP DPS 6215 - 2018 |
| 5 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHELSEA AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 190477 - 2019 |
| 4 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GRASS LAKE FD 78 - 2020 |
| 30 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BLACKMAN-LEONI TOWNSHIP DPS 7567 - 2018 |
| 29 April 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BLACKMAN-LEONI TOWNSHIP DPS 7515 - 2018 |
| 22 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BLACKMAN-LEONI TOWNSHIP DPS 7105 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grass Lake: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mellen Camp Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grass Lake in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2005: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2005 | Hail | Grass Lake | $15,000 | The public reported one and three quarters inch diameter hail in Grass Lake. |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grass Lake | $5,000 | Jackson County Central Dispatch reported trees and power lines were downed across Grass Lake Township. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Grass Lake | - | Jackson County Emergency Management reported golf ball-sized hail on Morrisey Road in Grass Lake Township, 2 miles north of the city of Grass Lake. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grass Lake | - | 60 MPH wind and tree damage reported by amateur radio operators. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leoni | 3.0 miles | 17 | |
| Fishville | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Francisco | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Oak Point | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Holiday Manor Park | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Trist | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Michigan Center | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| Napoleon | 6.5 miles | 13 |
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 Grass Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2281896 | 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 627210. 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.








