Hillsdale, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hillsdale City. It lies in ZIP code area 49242. The Survey maps it on the Hillsdale quadrangle. 8,036 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.

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Hillsdale within Hillsdale County

On record in Hillsdale

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 3 records

Hillsdale County Courthouselisted 1982
Hillsdale Downtown Historic Districtlisted 1995
William R. Kirby Sr. Houselisted 1982

Population over time

2 figures

Hillsdale fell from 8,305 to 8,036 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	8,305
2020	8,036	-269 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Hillsdale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hillsdale between 2018 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
5 August 2018	Natural	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HILLSDALE CITY FD 0000796 - 2018
8 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HILLSDALE CITY FD 0000696 - 2018
6 April 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HILLSDALE CITY FD 0000410 - 2019
26 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HILLSDALE CITY FD 0000297 - 2018
4 December 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HILLSDALE RURAL FD 0019114 - 2019
10 November 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HILLSDALE CITY FD 0001335 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsdale County

Storms near this place

60 of 72 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsdale in 72 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 62 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2001	Lightning	Hillsdale	1 killed	Man went outside to check possible lightning damage to barn. While standing outside of barn was hitby lightning and died shortly after at Hillsdale Community Health Center.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	1 hurt, $50,000	Hillsdale County officials reported trees and power lines were downed by straight-line thunderstorm winds across Allen, Adams, and Wheatland townships. Four barns were destroyed at 3120 East Bacon Road in Hillsdale and damage was done to the home at the same address. One woman sustained minor injuries when the trailer she was in parked on Meadow Lane tipped over.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$100,000	SEVERAL TREES DOWN ACROSS THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF THE COUNTY INCLUDING ONE WHOLE LINE OF POWER POLES WHICH WERE FLATTENED TO THE GROUND.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$50,000	WIDESPREAD TREE DAMAGE AND POWER LINES DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$20,000	Trees and power lines down throughout the county.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$20,000	A pole barn was destroyed west of Hillsdale.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$15,000	A pole barn was destroyed in the area.
May 2024	Hail	Hillsdale	$12,000	no account filed
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$10,000	Dispatch reports a few trees and powerlines down across the county.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$10,000	Several reports of trees and wires down within the county.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$10,000	Scattered reports of trees down in and around the Hillsdale area as well as western parts of the county.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$10,000	A tree was blown down on car. Damage is estimated at $10,000.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$10,000	Power lines reported down in the area.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$10,000	Barn blown down. Numerous trees down.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$10,000	Trees and power lines down in northeast part of Hillsdale County.
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$8,000	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$5,000	Windows were blown out of homes and businesses.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$2,500	Hillsdale County Emergency Operations reported a couple of trees downed 2 miles west of Hillsdale.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$2,500	Minor tree damage reported, with limbs strewn along portions of U.S. Highway 12.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$2,000	Power lines and a tree reported down.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$1,000	A tree, as well as power lines, were reported down in the city of Hillsdale.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Large limbs down.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Trees down, some onto buildings. Power lines and poles down.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported numerous trees and power lines down across the county.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Three inch tree limbs broken. Power poles broken. Report from MPing.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Multiple trees down in Hillsdale.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Several reports of trees and powerlines down across northern Hillsdale County from 2230 to 2300 EDT.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Power poles broken, along with three inch tree limbs.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	EM reports numerous trees and power lines down across Hillsdale County.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Numerous reports of trees and large tree limbs being blown down in Hillsdale.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported several trees were blown down around the county, some onto power lines.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported numerous trees down across mainly the northern half of the county.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported multiple trees down in the Hillsdale and surrounding areas.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down on the south side of Hillsdale.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported trees and power lines down in and around Hillsdale.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported trees down across the county.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Trees and power lines down.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Numerous trees down.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported trees down across the northern part of the county.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported tree limbs and a few trees down in and around Hillsdale.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Trees were reported down across mainly the northern part of the county.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Numerous trees reported down across the county.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Several additional large trees reported down across the northwestern part of the county.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	The emergency manager reported a 2.5 foot diameter tree down just southwest of Hillsdale. Reports of small trees down were also received in the city of Hillsdale.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Three larger trees were blown down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	A few trees were reported down west of Hillsdale.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Tree reported blown down at the intersection of Holcomb and East Bacon roads.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Power lines blown down in the city of Hillsdale.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Trees and power lines down.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management reported trees down in the city of Hillsdale.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	A tree was reported down blocking a road.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Tree was blown down onto a house in the city. No damage estimates were available and no injuries were reported.
August 2003	Tornado (F0)	Hillsdale	-	A brief touchdown was observed by fire personnel near Sterling and Walworth roads. No damage or injuries were reported with the touchdown.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Trees and power lines down.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Trees reported down in the area.
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management reported trees down northeast of Hillsdale.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Law Enforcement reported large tree limbs down west of Hillsdale.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down in Hillsdale.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Two trees blown down and transformer knocked out.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Hillsdale 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Steamburg	3.2 miles	11
Bankers	3.6 miles	10
Jonesville	4.7 miles	10
Osseo	5.2 miles	11
North Adams	6.6 miles	11
Cambria	7.0 miles	10
Allen	7.7 miles	11
Fountain Park	8.1 miles	10

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 Hillsdale	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2373817	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 628321. 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.

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.