Laingsburg, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Laingsburg City. It lies in ZIP code area 48848. It stands on Vermilion Creek. The Survey maps it on the Laingsburg quadrangle. 1,424 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 827 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLaingsburg grew from 1,283 to 1,424 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 | 1,283 | |
| 2020 | 1,424 | +141 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1928 USGS Laingsburg quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1944 USGS Laingsburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Laingsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Lansing quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Laingsburg between 1996 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000259 - 201 |
| 25 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000260 - 201 |
| 14 May 2019 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000223 - 201 |
| 9 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000173 - 201 |
| 26 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000181 - 201 |
| 11 April 1996 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000128 - 201 |
| 26 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000150 - 201 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laingsburg in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laingsburg | $120,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laingsburg | $100,000 | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laingsburg | $15,000 | Trained spotters and broadcast media reported several large trees blown down, some of which blocked roadways. One tree limb landed on a house, while another house lost its chimney. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Laingsburg | - | Multiple trees also reported down. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Laingsburg | - | Trees and power lines also reported blown down. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laingsburg | - | A small tree was reported down. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Laingsburg | - | Water covered many roads. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laingsburg | - | Law enforcement reported numerous trees and power lines down. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laingsburg | - | A trained weather spotter estimated a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Laingsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Laingsburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bennington | 6.6 miles | 14 | |
| Shaftsburg | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Forest Green Estates | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Pittsburg | 6.9 miles | 14 | |
| Perry | 8.3 miles | 13 | |
| Burton | 8.8 miles | 14 | |
| Morrice | 9.8 miles | 13 | |
| Five Points | 10.0 miles | 14 |
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 Laingsburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2332280 | 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 629954. 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.






