Martin, Michigan
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Martin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49070. The Survey maps it on the Martin quadrangle. 377 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMartin fell from 410 to 377 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 | 410 | |
| 2020 | 377 | -33 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Wayland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Martin quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Martin between 2011 and 2020, burning about 43 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 use | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.1 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALLEGAN 05 |
| 3 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MARTIN FIRE/RESCUE 0000076 - 2018 |
| 11 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MARTIN FIRE/RESCUE 0000075 - 2019 |
| 14 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALLEGAN 04 - MARTIN FIELD |
| 6 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.2 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALLEGAN 04 |
| 1 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MARTIN FIRE/RESCUE 0000054 - 2020 |
| 4 April 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MARTIN FIRE/RESCUE 0000039 - 2019 |
| 29 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GUN PLAIN CHARTER TWP FD 0000047 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Martin: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millers Pit & Mill # 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hervig Mall Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Pavlak Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martin in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | $10,000 | The public near Martin reported that multiple large trees were blown down. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | $10,000 | Trees and power lines downed in Martin. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down near Martin. |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | $5,000 | Michigan State Police closed U.S. Highway 131 briefly near Martin in Martin Township to allow Consumers Energy crews restore electrical lines downed by fallen trees. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | $2,500 | Allegan County Central Dispatch reported downed trees blocked the intersection of 120th Avenue East and 10th Street near Martin. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | - | A trained spotter reported that tree limbs and signs as well as several trees were blown down across portions of Allegan county in Martin and also between Allegan and Hopkins. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | - | A report from the broadcast media indicated that a twenty by thirty foot barn was destroyed by damaging wind gusts three miles southeast of Martin. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monteith Station | 1.0 miles | 9 | |
| East Martin | 2.8 miles | 9 | |
| Watson | 3.2 miles | 9 | |
| Shelbyville | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Hooper | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Neeley | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Otsego | 6.0 miles | 17 | |
| Bradley | 6.4 miles | 9 |
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 Martin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2454021 | 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 631648. 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.





