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Middleville, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Thornapple Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49333. It stands on Bassett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Middleville quadrangle. 4,295 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

Middleville within Barry County

On record in Middleville

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

Population over time

2 figures

Middleville grew from 3,319 to 4,295 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
20103,319
20204,295+976 (+29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Middleville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 were 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/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
21 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2019Natural5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHASTINGS FD 0000430 - 2019
9 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2012Misuse of fire by a minor4.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARRY 02
12 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALEDONIA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 648 - 2019
7 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARRY 02 - HARRIS CREEK RD GUN RANGE
7 May 2007Arson/incendiarism10 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry 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 Middleville: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Currie and Duncan Lake MarlLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Barry Co Pit Yerington ConstSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Barry Co Road Comm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bohn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Barry County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middleville in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flood. 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
April 2013FloodMiddleville$5,000,000Significant flooding occurred on rivers and streams across Barry county due to heavy rainfall and antecedent high river levels and saturated grounds.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$100,000Several trees and power lines were blown down across Barry county.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$50,000Barry County Central Dispatch reported several large trees and power lines downed across the Middleville and Yankee Springs area of northwest Barry County. Many trees fell across roads, creating hazardous driving conditions for motorists. One Middleville home, at 3240 N. Yankee Springs Road (Highway M-37), sustained damage from 2 trees downed in the front yard. The downed trees damaged the resident's garage, front picture window, and roof.
July 2003HailMiddleville$40,000Numerous reports of hail were received from Middleville, including one report of one inch diameter hail 3.5 miles south Middleville off M-37.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$25,000Several trees were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$25,000A pole barn was blown off it's foundation and numerous trees were blown down just southeast of Middleville.
August 2003HailMiddleville$15,000One inch diameter hail was reported in Middleville.
May 2004HailMiddleville$10,000The public reported three quarters inch diameter hail in Middleville.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$10,000Wind damage was reported and some power lines were downed by strong winds.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$10,000Trees and power lines downed in Middleville.
September 2003HailMiddleville$5,000Three quarters inch hail was reported with an isolated severe thunderstorm two miles south of Middleville.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$2,500Barry County Central Dispatch reported trees downed near the intersection of 108th and Whitneyville Road, 3 miles north of Middleville in Thornapple Township.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$2,000A large tree limb was blown down onto power lines that were also downed.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMiddleville-Trees and wires down.

Every storm recorded in Barry 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
Irving2.9 miles13
Parmelee2.9 miles12
Bowens Mill4.9 miles9
Freeport8.7 miles12
Podunk9.0 miles12
Welcome Corner9.1 miles12
Circle Pine Center9.6 miles13
Hastings10.2 miles12

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 MiddlevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959122The 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 632281. 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.