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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.

Kingsley within Grand Traverse County

Population over time

2 figures

Kingsley 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,480
20201,431-49 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

23 since 1992

Regional 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 use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
23 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 03 - DELL RD.
10 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources0000215 - 2018
10 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 1992Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources0000131 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2002Thunderstorm WindKingsley$15,000Roof blown off building
June 2014Thunderstorm WindKingsley$6,000Approximately eight trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindKingsley$5,000Several trees down in Kinglsey and the surrounding countryside.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindKingsley$2,000One tree downed on Fenton Street near George Street.
April 2024HailKingsley-Nickel and dime sized hail accompanied by heavy rain.
April 2024HailKingsley-Quarter inch hail in Kingsley.
April 2017HailKingsley-no account filed
July 2014HailKingsley-no account filed
June 2006HailKingsley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand Traverse 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
Summit City2.6 miles12
Mayfield2.9 miles13
McManus Corner5.2 miles13
Hannah5.3 miles12
Hilltop6.6 miles12
Jacks Landing7.4 miles14
Devils Elbow7.6 miles14
Walton Junction8.1 miles13

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 KingsleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3319727The 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.