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Greenville, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenville City. It lies in ZIP code area 48838. The Survey maps it on the Greenville West quadrangle. 8,816 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

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Greenville within Montcalm County

On record in Greenville

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

Greenville grew from 8,481 to 8,816 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
20108,481
20208,816+335 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Greenville between 1996 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 4 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 use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural4
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREENVILLE DPS 2003827 - 2020
29 August 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREENVILLE DPS 1903524 - 2019
26 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2006Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHERIDAN COMMUNITY FD 2018040 - 2018
2 May 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREENVILLE DPS 1801548 - 2018
2 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTCALM TOWNSHIP FD 2018029 - 2018
17 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREENVILLE DPS 1901918 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montcalm County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Greenville: 5 producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Harris PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shook PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wheeler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wheeler Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montcalm County

Storms near this place

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenville in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 12 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2003HailGreenville1 hurt, $20,000A motorcyclist suffered a minor injury when he was hit in the mouth by a hailstone. Three quarters inch hail was reported six miles north of Greenville and seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported five miles north of Greenville, where a parking lot was covered by hail near Colby and M-91.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindGreenville$50,000no account filed
November 2013Thunderstorm WindGreenville$20,000A trained spotter reported several large branches were blown down and some damage to gutters and shingles of a restaurant.
July 2003HailGreenville$20,000Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported approximately eight miles north of Greenville.
June 2005HailGreenville$20,000no account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindGreenville$10,000Trees were downed by strong winds.
August 2015HailGreenville$5,000Trained spotters reported hail up to an inch and a quarter in diameter near Greenville.
May 2006HailGreenville$5,000Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported by the public near Greenville.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindGreenville$5,000A couple of trees were blown down onto power lines in Greenville.
August 2004HailGreenville$5,000A trained spotter reported one inch diameter hail in Greenville.
July 2004HailGreenville$5,000A trained spotter in Greenville reported three quarters inch diameter hail.
June 2005HailGreenville$5,000no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindGreenville$5,000no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGreenville$2,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindGreenville$2,000no account filed
March 2024HailGreenville-A trained spotter in Greenville reported nickel sized hail.
August 2019HailGreenville-Hail up to one inch in diameter was reported near Greenville.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindGreenville-A trained spotter reported an estimated gust to 60 mph near Greenville.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGreenville-A trained spotter reported estimated wind gusts to 60 to 65 mph which blew down power lines.
December 2007Thunderstorm WindGreenville-A 62 knot wind gust was recorded by a mesonet site in Montcalm county.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindGreenville-Several large limbs and one large tree were blown down at Baldwin Lake.
August 2007HailGreenville-no account filed
February 1997Flash FloodGreenville-no account filed
April 1994HailGreenville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montcalm 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
Eureka Place2.7 miles10
Gowen5.7 miles12
Turk Lake6.4 miles12
Amsden6.9 miles10
Sidney8.1 miles11
Fenwick9.3 miles10
Langston9.4 miles11
Sheridan9.8 miles10

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 GreenvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3011822The 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 627370. 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.