Muir, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Lyons Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48860. It stands on Maple River. The Survey maps it on the Portland North quadrangle. 646 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 656 feet above sea level.
On record in Muir
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 1 record
Muir Church of Christlisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresMuir grew from 604 to 646 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 | 604 | |
| 2020 | 646 | +42 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1945 USGS Portland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Portland North quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Lansing quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Muir between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IONIA DPS 0000130 - 2018 |
| 2 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LYONS-MUIR FD 0442019 - 2019 |
| 15 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LYONS-MUIR FD 0472019 - 2019 |
| 24 March 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IONIA DPS 0000173 - 2019 |
| 10 March 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IONIA DPS 0000045 - 2018 |
| 20 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LYONS-MUIR FD 1252020 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Muir: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams Bros No 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Muir in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Flood | Muir | $100,000 | Numerous roads were closed due to flooding in and near Ionia. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muir | $10,000 | The public reported that several trees were blown down in and near Muir. |
| September 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Muir | $10,000 | An F0 tornado touched down very briefly, producing top winds estimated at only 40 to 50 m.p.h. and no reports of any significant damage or any injuries. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muir | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muir | $4,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Muir | - | Minor property damage and tree damage occurred along this brief tornado path. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyons | 1.0 miles | 10 | |
| Collins | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Prairie | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Pewamo | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Ionia | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| South Ionia | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Palo | 8.4 miles | 11 | |
| Hubbardston | 8.5 miles | 10 |
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 Muir | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2140659 | 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 633093. 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.





