Hanover, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49241. The Survey maps it on the Hanover quadrangle. 472 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,115 feet above sea level.
On record in Hanover
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
Hanover High School Complexlisted 2012- Kennedy, Frederick A., Jr., and Caroline Hewett, Farmlisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresHanover grew from 441 to 472 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 | 441 | |
| 2020 | 472 | +31 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1948 USGS Spring Arbor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Spring Arbor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
15 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Hanover between 2018 and 2020, burning about 15 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 use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HANOVER TOWNSHIP FD 148 - 2019 |
| 4 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SOMERSET TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 490 - 2018 |
| 3 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HANOVER TOWNSHIP FD 152 - 2020 |
| 8 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LIBERTY TOWNSHIP FD 99 - 2019 |
| 6 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PULASKI TOWNSHIP FD 0000039 - 2019 |
| 24 April 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HANOVER TOWNSHIP FD 93 - 2020 |
| 21 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HANOVER TOWNSHIP FD 61 - 2019 |
| 8 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LITCHFIELD FD 2020-17 - 2020 |
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 Hanover: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zenith Portland Cement Co Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanover in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $50,000 | Several trees were uprooted and snapped off along a five mile path along Moscow road. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $25,000 | Several trees were blown down near Hanover. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Hanover | $10,000 | The public in Hanover reported one inch diameter hail. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $5,000 | Jackson Central Dispatch reported trees uprooted along Fowler Road in Hanover Township. Local fire officials estimated winds gusted to 50 mph in the thunderstorm. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $5,000 | Trees reported downed in Hanover. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Hanover | - | Jackson Central Dispatch relayed reports from Hanover Township fire officials of nickel-sized hail. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stoney Point | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| Horton | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Pulaski | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Concord | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Spring Arbor | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| South Jackson | 7.7 miles | 19 | |
| Liberty | 8.0 miles | 18 | |
| Sandstone | 10.6 miles | 12 |
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 Hanover | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3319804 | 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 627738. 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.






