Kingsley, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Paradise Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49649. It stands on Kingsley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kingsley quadrangle. 1,431 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 968 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKingsley fell from 1,480 to 1,431 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 | 1,480 | |
| 2020 | 1,431 | -49 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Kingsley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Kingsley quadrangle1:25000
- 1983 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
23 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Kingsley between 1992 and 2019, burning about 165 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 use | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.9 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GRAND TRAVERSE 03 - DELL RD. |
| 10 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | 0000215 - 2018 |
| 10 August 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 July 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 June 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | 0000131 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingsley in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingsley | $15,000 | Roof blown off building |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingsley | $6,000 | Approximately eight trees were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingsley | $5,000 | Several trees down in Kinglsey and the surrounding countryside. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingsley | $2,000 | One tree downed on Fenton Street near George Street. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Kingsley | - | Nickel and dime sized hail accompanied by heavy rain. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Kingsley | - | Quarter inch hail in Kingsley. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Kingsley | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Kingsley | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Kingsley | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summit City | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Mayfield | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| McManus Corner | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Hannah | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Hilltop | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Jacks Landing | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Devils Elbow | 7.6 miles | 14 | |
| Walton Junction | 8.1 miles | 13 |
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 Kingsley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3319727 | 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 629725. 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.





