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Lake Odessa, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Odessa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48849. It stands on Tupper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Odessa quadrangle. 1,994 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Lake Odessa within Ionia County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Odessa fell from 2,018 to 1,994 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
20102,018
20201,994-24 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lake Odessa between 2015 and 2020, burning about 62 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/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
2 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000090 - 2018
7 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000045 - 2019
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMPBELL TOWNSHIP FD 66 - 2018
17 April 2015Debris and open burning57 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARRY 02
11 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUNFIELD FD 2018093 - 2018
29 February 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000027 - 2020
18 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARRY 02 - BARRY GROUND FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ionia County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lake Odessa: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ionia Co. Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ionia Co. Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ionia County

Storms near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Odessa in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1997LightningLake Odessa1 hurtA 15-year-old boy was struck by lightning around 2 PM EDT Tuesday, July 8, 1997, behind the rectory of St. Edward Catholic Church in Lake Odessa. Luke Stebbins was taken to Pennock Hospital in Hastings by rescue personnel, where doctors were able to resuscitate him. Lake Odessa Police Chief John Shaw said Stebbins suffered a heart attack and some swelling of the brain when he was struck. The boy was transferred to Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids later that evening in critical condition. On July 23rd, he was transferred to Mary Freebed Hospital for rehabilitation.
April 2023HailLake Odessa$500,000Hail up to tennis ball sized was reported across portions of Ionia county. It did considerable damage to area roofs and siding of homes.
June 2021Tornado (EF1)Lake Odessa$250,000An NWS storm survey determined that an EF-1 tornado occurred north of Lake Odessa. Multiple homes and barns were damaged at the following locations: Bippley/Jordan Lake Road, Ainsworth Road, and Harwood Road. Convergent tracks were observed through corn and wheat fields. Trees were blown down or snapped. Wood power poles were snapped on Clarksville Road near the end point of the tornado.
May 2004HailLake Odessa$20,000Broadcast media reported three quarters inch hail in Lake Odessa.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLake Odessa$20,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLake Odessa$10,000Trained spotters reported multiple large trees down across parts of the county.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindLake Odessa$10,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindLake Odessa$5,000Local area law enforcement reported that several trees were blown down in Campbell and Odessa Townships.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindLake Odessa$2,500Numerous trees downed and pea-sized hail reported from a severe thunderstorm.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLake Odessa-A peak wind gust to 60 mph was measured near Lake Odessa.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindLake Odessa-Tree limbs and branches up to 6 inches in diameter were broken off.

Every storm recorded in Ionia 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
Campbell Corners5.2 miles12
West Sebewa6.0 miles13
Clarksville6.8 miles12
Berlin Center8.0 miles12
Tremaine Corners8.7 miles12
Sebewa Corners9.7 miles10
Elmdale10.3 miles12
Saranac10.7 miles12

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 Lake OdessaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2106605The 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 629988. 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.