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North Muskegon, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1983. It stands in North Muskegon City. It lies in ZIP code area 49445. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dalton quadrangle. 4,093 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

North Muskegon within Muskegon County

Population over time

3 figures

North Muskegon grew from 4,031 to 4,093 between 2000 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
20004,031
20103,786-245 (-6%)
20204,093+307 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of North Muskegon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 274 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use26
Debris and open burning6
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
31 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON 01
30 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON 09
30 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON HEIGHTS FD 0001196 - 2018
15 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON 04
12 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON FD 0003230 - 2019

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 North Muskegon: 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

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Muskegon in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015Thunderstorm WindNorth Muskegon$25,000Several large trees were blown down across portions of Muskegon county.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindNorth Muskegon$10,000Large trees were blown down and there were power outages due to wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
April 2014HailNorth Muskegon-Trained spotters reported one inch diameter hail in and near Muskegon.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNorth Muskegon-A trained weather spotter measured a 75-mph wind gust in North Muskegon with his local anemometer.

Every storm 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
Muskegon1.8 miles11
Berry Junction2.8 miles10
Muskegon Heights4.1 miles11
Roosevelt Park4.1 miles11
Dalton4.3 miles10
Norton Shores6.0 miles11
Cloverville7.1 miles11
Apple Carr Village7.7 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 North MuskegonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2853418The 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 1621049. 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.