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.
Population over time
2 figuresMaple 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 672 | |
| 2020 | 573 | -99 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1918 USGS Perrinton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Perrinton quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Maple Rapids quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Alma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ASHLEY VFD 0019105 - 2019 |
| 8 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MAPLE RAPIDS VFD 23 - 2020 |
| 2 April 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WESTPHALIA TOWNSHIP FD WFD2025 - 2020 |
| 24 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST JOHNS FD 0003665 - 2018 |
| 13 January 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MAPLE RAPIDS VFD 4 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maple Rapids | 1 killed, $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Maple Rapids | $150,000 | A 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 2003 | Hail | Maple Rapids | $25,000 | One and three quarters inch diameter hail was reported in Maple Rapids. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maple Rapids | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maple Rapids | $25,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maple Rapids | $20,000 | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Maple Rapids | - | The hail was reported on the south side of Maple Rapids. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maple Rapids | - | Two trees were blown down east of Maple Rapids and south of Elsie. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Maple Rapids | - | Golf ball-size hail covering ground. |
| February 1997 | Flash Flood | Maple Rapids | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fowler | 7.5 miles | 14 | |
| Matherton | 8.1 miles | 10 | |
| Eureka | 9.4 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Johns | 10.0 miles | 14 | |
| Riley | 13.1 miles | 11 | |
| Duplain | 13.3 miles | 14 | |
| Westphalia | 13.3 miles | 10 | |
| Shepardsville | 15.7 miles | 14 |
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 Rapids | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1975322 | 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 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.







