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Jenison, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Georgetown Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49428. It stands on Rush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grandville quadrangle. 16,640 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Jenison within Ottawa County

Population over time

2 figures

Jenison grew from 16,538 to 16,640 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
201016,538
202016,640+102 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

35 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Jenison between 2005 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 2 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 use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYOMING FD 194763 - 2019
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-TALLMADGE FD 191496 - 2019
8 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRANDVILLE FD 1256 - 2019
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYOMING FD 194072 - 2019
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYOMING FD 0003855 - 2018
14 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYOMING FD 194222 - 2019
13 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGEORGETOWN FD 0000465 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Jenison: 16 producers, 3 past producers. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Grand Rapids Gypsum Mine #2Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Grand Rapids Gypsum Mine #3Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Grand Rapids MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Butterworth Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cheyne Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
De Went Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gillisse Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Rapids Gravel Co. Plant No.20Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Rapids Plant No. 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Huizenga Gravel Co., Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jenison in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2003: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2003HailJenison$50,000A report of one and three quarters inch diameter hail was received from Hudsonville. Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported in Jenison.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindJenison$2,000no account filed
May 1997HailJenison-no account filed
September 1997HailJenison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Hudsonville4.6 miles9
Bauer5.9 miles10
Grand Valley6.2 miles11
Jamestown6.2 miles9
Tallmadge6.3 miles11
South Blendon7.0 miles10
Zutphen7.4 miles9
Forest Grove Station8.2 miles9

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 JenisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1019664The 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 629253. 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.