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.
Population over time
2 figuresLeslie 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,851 | |
| 2020 | 1,927 | +76 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1919 USGS Rives Junction quadrangle1:62500
- 1921 USGS Rives Junction quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Leslie quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
24 since 2018Regional 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 use | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | RIVES-TOMPKINS FD 611 - 2020 |
| 2 September 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | RIVES-TOMPKINS FD 370 - 2019 |
| 8 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LESLIE FD 0000072 - 2019 |
| 18 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | INGHAM TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0197-18 - 2018 |
| 15 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MASON FD 113 - 2020 |
| 9 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LESLIE FD 0000043 - 2018 |
| 4 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | RIVES-TOMPKINS FD 0000188 - 2018 |
| 1 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LESLIE FD 0000039 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leslie | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leslie | $25,000 | A trained spotter reported that several trees were blown down and also uprooted near Leslie. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leslie | $20,000 | Ingham county emergency management reported that several trees were blown down in Leslie and Onondaga. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leslie | $20,000 | Several trees were blown down onto power lines in Leslie, and large tree branches were blown down onto cars in East Lansing. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Leslie | $20,000 | One inch hail was observed in Leslie. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leslie | $20,000 | A 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leslie | $15,000 | A 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leslie | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down in and near Leslie. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leslie | $10,000 | Multiple trees were blown down on Blackmore Road near Leslie, where a flag pole was also snapped in half. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leslie | $10,000 | 2 foot diameter trees were downed in Leslie and in Stockbridge. |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leslie | $10,000 | Ingham County Central Dispatch reported numerous trees and power lines were downed in Leslie Township. |
| December 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Leslie | $5,000 | A utility pole was snapped. |
| March 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Leslie | - | Caused tree damage along the path as well as minor damage to homes. Several outbuildings were lost along the path. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Leslie | - | Two healthy eight inch diameter trees were blown down at Ridley road north of Kinneyville road. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leslie | - | A severe thunderstorm produced estimated wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. 4 miles west of Leslie. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Leslie | - | Weather spotter reported 0.5 to 0.75 inch hail. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leslie | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Leslie | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Eden | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Bunker Hill | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| Onondaga | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Aurelius | 6.9 miles | 13 | |
| Kinneville | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Fitchburg | 8.2 miles | 13 | |
| Mason | 8.8 miles | 11 |
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 Leslie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2800622 | 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 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.






