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Maple Rapids, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Essex Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48853. It lies near The Island. The Survey maps it on the Maple Rapids quadrangle. 573 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Maple Rapids within Clinton County

Population over time

2 figures

Maple Rapids fell from 672 to 573 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
2010672
2020573-99 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Maple Rapids between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
17 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLEY VFD 0019105 - 2019
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAPLE RAPIDS VFD 23 - 2020
2 April 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTPHALIA TOWNSHIP FD WFD2025 - 2020
24 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOHNS FD 0003665 - 2018
13 January 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAPLE RAPIDS VFD 4 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maple Rapids in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2008: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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
October 2001Thunderstorm WindMaple Rapids1 killed, $20,000no account filed
May 2004Tornado (F0)Maple Rapids$150,000A F0 tornado touched down about four miles east southeast of Maple Rapids at 3:38 p.m. EDT. The tornado was 75 yards wide with a path length of 3.5 miles. It moved east northeast at 40 m.p.h. The tornado produced the greatest amount of damage near the point of touchdown four miles east southeast of Maple Rapids just south of Island Road, where one silo was destroyed and two others were damaged. A shed was also damaged. A couple of two by fours were driven into the side of a pole barn. Shingles were damaged and ripped off of two homes. Maximum wind speeds here were estimated at 70 m.p.h. Several trees were blown down in the tornadoe's path. The tornado moved east northeast and lifted just north of Maple Rapids road and east of DeWitt road near Ferdon Creek in Clinton county.
May 2003HailMaple Rapids$25,000One and three quarters inch diameter hail was reported in Maple Rapids.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMaple Rapids$25,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMaple Rapids$25,000no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindMaple Rapids$20,000no account filed
April 2008HailMaple Rapids-The hail was reported on the south side of Maple Rapids.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMaple Rapids-Two trees were blown down east of Maple Rapids and south of Elsie.
July 1995HailMaple Rapids-Golf ball-size hail covering ground.
February 1997Flash FloodMaple Rapids-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Fowler7.5 miles14
Matherton8.1 miles10
Eureka9.4 miles14
Saint Johns10.0 miles14
Riley13.1 miles11
Duplain13.3 miles14
Westphalia13.3 miles10
Shepardsville15.7 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 Maple RapidsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1975322The 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 631482. 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.