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Leslie, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Leslie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49251. The Survey maps it on the Leslie quadrangle. 1,927 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Leslie within Ingham County

Population over time

2 figures

Leslie grew from 1,851 to 1,927 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
20101,851
20201,927+76 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

24 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Leslie between 2018 and 2020, burning about 81 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
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
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
9 September 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRIVES-TOMPKINS FD 611 - 2020
2 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRIVES-TOMPKINS FD 370 - 2019
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLESLIE FD 0000072 - 2019
18 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINGHAM TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0197-18 - 2018
15 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASON FD 113 - 2020
9 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLESLIE FD 0000043 - 2018
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRIVES-TOMPKINS FD 0000188 - 2018
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLESLIE FD 0000039 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ingham County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leslie in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 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 2000Thunderstorm WindLeslie$50,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindLeslie$25,000A trained spotter reported that several trees were blown down and also uprooted near Leslie.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLeslie$20,000Ingham county emergency management reported that several trees were blown down in Leslie and Onondaga.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLeslie$20,000Several trees were blown down onto power lines in Leslie, and large tree branches were blown down onto cars in East Lansing.
May 2004HailLeslie$20,000One inch hail was observed in Leslie.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindLeslie$20,000A severe thunderstorm wind gust blew several trees down, removed some shingles from homes, and blew a few bricks across a street five miles east of Leslie.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindLeslie$15,000A severe thunderstorm wind gust blew a tree down and also blew some siding and shingles off of a home five miles northeast of Leslie.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLeslie$10,000Several trees were blown down in and near Leslie.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLeslie$10,000Multiple trees were blown down on Blackmore Road near Leslie, where a flag pole was also snapped in half.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindLeslie$10,0002 foot diameter trees were downed in Leslie and in Stockbridge.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindLeslie$10,000Ingham County Central Dispatch reported numerous trees and power lines were downed in Leslie Township.
December 2007Thunderstorm WindNorth Leslie$5,000A utility pole was snapped.
March 2025Tornado (EF0)Leslie-Caused tree damage along the path as well as minor damage to homes. Several outbuildings were lost along the path.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindNorth Leslie-Two healthy eight inch diameter trees were blown down at Ridley road north of Kinneyville road.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindLeslie-A severe thunderstorm produced estimated wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. 4 miles west of Leslie.
April 1994HailLeslie-Weather spotter reported 0.5 to 0.75 inch hail.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLeslie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ingham 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
North Leslie2.1 miles11
Eden5.0 miles11
Bunker Hill6.3 miles13
Onondaga6.9 miles12
Aurelius6.9 miles13
Kinneville7.4 miles12
Fitchburg8.2 miles13
Mason8.8 miles11

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 LeslieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2800622The 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 630326. 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.