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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.

Laingsburg within Shiawassee County

Population over time

2 figures

Laingsburg 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,283
20201,424+141 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

12 since 1996

Regional 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
25 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000259 - 201
25 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000260 - 201
14 May 2019Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000223 - 201
9 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000173 - 201
26 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000181 - 201
11 April 1996Debris and open burning80 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000128 - 201
26 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000150 - 201

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shiawassee County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLaingsburg$120,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLaingsburg$100,000no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindLaingsburg$15,000Trained 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 2021HailLaingsburg-Multiple trees also reported down.
June 2021HailLaingsburg-Trees and power lines also reported blown down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindLaingsburg-A small tree was reported down.
June 2009Flash FloodLaingsburg-Water covered many roads.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLaingsburg-Law enforcement reported numerous trees and power lines down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLaingsburg-A trained weather spotter estimated a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph.
June 2011HailLaingsburg-no account filed
June 1997HailLaingsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shiawassee 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
Bennington6.6 miles14
Shaftsburg6.7 miles13
Forest Green Estates6.7 miles13
Pittsburg6.9 miles14
Perry8.3 miles13
Burton8.8 miles14
Morrice9.8 miles13
Five Points10.0 miles14

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 LaingsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2332280The 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.