Mendon, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Mendon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49072. It stands on Little Portage Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mendon quadrangle. 881 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 843 feet above sea level.
On record in Mendon
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 2 records
Marantette Bridgelisted 2001
Marantette Houselisted 1973
Population over time
2 figuresMendon grew from 870 to 881 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 | 870 | |
| 2020 | 881 | +11 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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 Leonidas quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Leonidas quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Leonidas quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Leonidas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Kalamazoo quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Mendon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Mendon between 2019 and 2020, burning about 4 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 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MENDON FIRE/RESCUE 0000011 - 2019 |
| 23 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MENDON FIRE/RESCUE 0000015 - 2019 |
| 14 March 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLON FIRE/RESCUE 078 - 2019 |
| 3 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LEONIDAS VFD 94 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mendon: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cole Brothers Contractors Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Wiggins Kent County Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mendon in 14 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | $2,000 | Trees reported blown down in Mendon. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Mendon | $1,000 | Photo on Facebook shows hail estimated to be between 1 to 1.5 inches in diameter. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | $1,000 | Two to 2 1/2 foot diameter trees uprooted. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | $200 | The public reports large tree branches down. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | - | Public reported large trees down on a house. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | - | Law enforcement officials reported trees and power lines down. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | - | Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down onto a utility line. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | - | The public reported a tree of unknown size down onto a garage. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | - | Amateur radio operators reported an eight inch tree limb down across the road at North Angling and Butler in Centreville. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | - | A trained spotter measured a 61 mph wind gust at the intersection of Michigan 60 and Baer Road. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | - | A tree was reported blown down. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Mendon | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Mendon | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Mendon | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wasepi | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Parkville | 5.2 miles | 15 | |
| Leonidas | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Fairfax | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Nottawa | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Centreville | 7.1 miles | 15 | |
| Colon | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Factoryville | 8.2 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 Mendon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3319709 | 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 1624728. 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.








