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Linden, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fenton Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48451. The Survey maps it on the Linden quadrangle. 4,142 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

Linden within Genesee County

On record in Linden

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Linden grew from 3,991 to 4,142 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
20103,991
20204,142+151 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Linden between 2018 and 2020, burning about 13 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 use10
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
7 September 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTLAND AREA FD 0000655 - 2019
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFENTON CITY FD 0000288 - 2019
24 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFENTON CITY FD 0000320 - 2019
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFENTON CITY FD 0000305 - 2019
10 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFENTON CITY FD 0000228 - 2019
21 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFENTON CITY FD 0000240 - 2018
12 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLINDEN CITY FD 0000132 - 2018
5 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFENTON CITY FD 0000138 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Linden: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Frank Sharp Clay PitClayPast Producer
Bentley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Denton Plant & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fenton Gravel Co., Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linden in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 20 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail. 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLinden$30,000Trees and wires reported down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLinden$5,000Trees and wires reported blown down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindLinden$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew a trailer several feet from its foundation, blew in a garage door, knocked several large trees over, destroyed a swing set, and blew some shingles off of roofs.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLinden$4,000Multiple trees were reported blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLinden$1,000Large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLinden-A tree was blown down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLinden-Numerous trees reported down.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindLinden-Six to eight in diameter tree limbs down.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindLinden-Trees and power lines reported down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLinden-Large tree limbs reported blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLinden-Trees reported down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLinden-A trained spotter reported trees down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLinden-Law enforcement reported a large tree down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLinden-NWS employee reported a tree blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLinden-NWS Employee reported a tree blown down between Linden and Fenton.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLinden-Several large limbs were reported down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLinden-A trained spotter reported numerous tree limbs blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLinden-A trained spotter reported four inch diameter trees and power lines blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLinden-A NWS employee reported two large trees blown down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindLinden-Several large trees were blown down.
May 1994HailLinden-A supercell thunderstorm produced large hail in both southern Shiawassee and Southern Genesee Counties. In both Linden and Fenton of southern Genesee County, the hail fell for at least 10 minutes, causing serious damage to two fruit orchards in these communities. Damage was estimated at a minimum of $500,000, but this damage estimate was expected to increase due to spraying costs for disease prevention for the trees, and the fact that much of the damage will show only with time.
April 2014HailLinden-no account filed
June 2004HailLinden-no account filed
May 2003HailLinden-no account filed
May 2000HailLinden-no account filed
July 2000HailLinden-no account filed
June 1999HailLinden-no account filed
July 1996HailLinden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
Argentine3.7 miles14
Fenton4.3 miles14
Lakeside4.3 miles14
Bayport Park4.4 miles14
Lake Fenton4.5 miles14
Rankin7.1 miles13
Gaines8.0 miles14
Swartz Creek10.2 miles13

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 LindenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2245419The 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 630496. 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.