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Muskegon Heights, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Muskegon Heights City. It lies in ZIP code area 49444. It stands on Little Black Creek. The Survey maps it on the Muskegon East quadrangle. 9,917 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Muskegon Heights within Muskegon County

Population over time

4 figures

Muskegon Heights grew from 1,012 to 9,917 between 1900 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
19001,012
200012,049
201010,856-1,193 (-10%)
20209,917-939 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

69 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Muskegon Heights between 1994 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use26
Natural5
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON FD 0003187 - 2019
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON FD 0003117 - 2019
2 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTON SHORES FD 0001616 - 2018
16 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON HEIGHTS FD 0001196 - 2018
12 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON FD 0003230 - 2019
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTON SHORES FD 0001428 - 2018
9 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON HEIGHTS FD 0001012 - 2018
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON HEIGHTS FD 0001009 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskegon County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Muskegon Heights: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Lincoln Avenue SiteSilicaProducerSedimentary
Nugent PitSilicaProducer
Sherman Boulevard SiteSilicaProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Muskegon 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
Roosevelt Park1.8 miles11
Muskegon2.3 miles11
Norton Shores2.6 miles11
Cloverville4.0 miles11
North Muskegon4.1 miles10
Fruitport6.5 miles11
Berry Junction6.7 miles10
Apple Carr Village6.8 miles11

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 Muskegon HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2745116The 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 633165. 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.