Napoleon, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Napoleon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49261. The Survey maps it on the Norvell quadrangle. 1,131 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNapoleon fell from 1,258 to 1,131 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 | 1,258 | |
| 2020 | 1,131 | -127 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1948 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Manchester 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
- 1980 USGS Norvell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
25 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Napoleon between 2018 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 3 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 | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 362 - 2020 |
| 8 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 0000352 - 2018 |
| 22 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 344 - 2020 |
| 22 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 294 - 2020 |
| 15 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMBRIDGE FD 493 - 2020 |
| 14 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000436 - 2018 |
| 7 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 145 - 2019 |
| 30 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000252 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Napoleon: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mellen Camp Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Jude Sandstone Quarry | Flagstone | Producer | ||
| Jude Stone Quarry | Flagstone | Producer | ||
| Napoleon Sandstone Quarry | Flagstone | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Napoleon in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Napoleon | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Napoleon | $10,000 | Law enforcement three miles south of Napoleon reported one inch diameter hail. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Napoleon | $5,000 | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts blew down several trees in Napoleon. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Napoleon | $3,000 | A couple of trees were blown down by an isolated severe thunderstorm. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Napoleon | $2,000 | Spotters two miles west of Napoleon reported that a thunderstorm wind gust blew down one tree. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Napoleon | - | A trained spotter in Napoleon reported three quarters inch diameter hail. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Napoleon | - | Several trees were blown down around Napoleon. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Napoleon | - | Large trees down 3-4 NW Napolean at 0250 and 0315 and 4 w Brooklyn at 0310. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Point | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Norvell | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Brooklyn | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Jefferson | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Sunset Beach | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Fishville | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| The Heights | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Leoni | 5.9 miles | 17 |
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 Napoleon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1848741 | 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 633212. 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.






