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Leonard, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Addison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48367. The Survey maps it on the Lake Orion quadrangle. 377 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

Leonard within Oakland County

Population over time

2 figures

Leonard fell from 403 to 377 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
2010403
2020377-26 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Leonard between 2018 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. None 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/undetermined3
Smoking1

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
27 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDRYDEN TOWNSHIP FD 0018026 - 2018
13 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRUCE TOWNSHIP-ROMEO FD 0000565 - 2019
13 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON TOWNSHIP FD 0000156 - 2019
13 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON TOWNSHIP FD 0000154 - 2019
13 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDRYDEN TOWNSHIP FD 0019030 - 2019
9 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALMONT FD 22 - 2020
28 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRUCE TOWNSHIP-ROMEO FD 0000476 - 2019
26 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALMONT FD 40 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Leonard: 5 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
Addison Township PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Great Lakes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oxford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oxford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St Clair County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leonard in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2003Tornado (F1)Leonard$90,000A tornado touched down 1 mile southwest of Leonard and was on the ground for about 1 mile. Several large trees were uprooted from the tornado. A large pole barn was destroyed, a camper and trailer were overturned, the roof on a home was lifted off, and a truck was heavily damaged when a large tree fell onto it. The most extensive damage was reported on Quattro Lane, south of Leonard.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindLeonard$2,000Six trees were reported blown down along Lakeville Road.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindLeonard-Law enforcement reported trees blown down.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindLeonard-The Addison Township fire department reported that several trees had blown down in thunderstorm winds.
June 2025HailLeonard-no account filed
August 2000HailLeonard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oakland 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
Lakeville3.1 miles13
Campbells Corner4.5 miles13
Oxford7.0 miles14
Lake Orion7.6 miles13
Waterstone7.8 miles14
Rudds Mill7.8 miles13
Thomas8.2 miles12
Lake Orion Heights9.2 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 LeonardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2700443The 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 630315. 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.