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Grawn, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Blair Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49637. The Survey maps it on the Grawn quadrangle. 816 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 889 feet above sea level.

Grawn within Grand Traverse County

Population over time

2 figures

Grawn grew from 772 to 816 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
2010772
2020816+44 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Grawn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
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
12 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 04 - LOST LAKE
30 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLAIR TOWNSHIP FD 0000213 - 2019
18 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 06
16 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources18410 - 2018
11 August 1996Recreation and ceremony3.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 04 LOCKMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse 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 Grawn: 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayProspect
Beeman Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Grand Traverse County

Storms near this place

10 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grawn in 10 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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
August 2015Thunderstorm WindGrawn$5,200,000Considerable wind damage occurred in central Grand Traverse County, including near and just south of Traverse City. Many trees were downed, causing damage to vehicles and homes. Some roads were difficult to travel for a day or two after the storm.
October 2012Flash FloodGrawn$1,800,000A temporary dam and de-watering structure was in place alongside the Brown Bridge Dam on the Boardman River. This temporary dam was to assist in drawing down the small lake (Brown Bridge Pond) behind the dam, prior to the permanent removal of Brown Bridge Dam. This temporary dam failed on the morning of the 6th, and by late afternoon, most of the remaining water in Brown Bridge Pond had been released downstream. Within an hour, road closings occurred along Garfield and River Roads, and homes were evacuated along the river between Garfield and Keystone Roads. Eventually, 53 homes were impacted, with varying degrees of damage. Docks, small footbridges, and a number of smaller outbuildings were destroyed. Environmental damage, related to sediment deposition and fish kills, was possible but still being evaluated.
April 2014FloodGrawn$75,000The Boardman River flooded a few homes near Boardman Plains Road. In addition, Townline Road south of South Airport was closed by floodwaters.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindGrawn$5,000Multiple trees were downed along Beitner Road.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGrawn$4,500One large tree was downed, blocking Hoch Road west of Rusch Road. Another tree was downed on Prouty Road near Five Mile Road.
June 2023HailGrawn$1,000Trained spotter reports quarter sized hail and vehicle damage one mile north of Chums Corner in Grand Traverse county. Time estimated by radar.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGrawn$1,000Grand Traverse county central dispatch reports a tree downed on a house near fire station 12 at Silver Lake.
October 2020HailGrawn-no account filed
May 2019HailGrawn-no account filed
July 2014HailGrawn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand Traverse 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
Chums Corners2.1 miles12
Monroe Center3.4 miles12
Hilltop4.0 miles12
Interlochen4.1 miles15
Brookside6.0 miles12
Hannah6.2 miles12
Pavlovic Corner7.2 miles15
Karlin7.5 miles15

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 GrawnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q26961757The 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 627256. 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.