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Okemos, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Meridian Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48864. It stands on Pine Lake Outlet. The Survey maps it on the East Lansing quadrangle. 25,121 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Okemos within Ingham County

On record in Okemos

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

Population over time

2 figures

Okemos grew from 21,369 to 25,121 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
201021,369
202025,121+3,752 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

40 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Okemos between 2018 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903752 - 2019
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903926 - 2019
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING FD 0015086 - 2018
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903338 - 2019
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING TOWNSHIP FD 0000353 - 2018
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903431 - 2019
15 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAST LANSING FD 0003100 - 2018
29 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1803121 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ingham County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Okemos: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Briggs Company Clay PitClayPast Producer
Jolly Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ingham County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Okemos in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 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
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOkemos$10,000A few trees and tree limbs were blown down near Haslett where wind gusts up to 60 mph were reported.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindOkemos-A number of large trees snapped and uprooted in Okemos.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindOkemos-A trained spotter estimated that thunderstorm wind gusts reached 60 mph in Okemos.
August 1997HailOkemos-Okemos Police Department reported 3/4 inch diameter hail in Okemos.

Every storm recorded in Ingham 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
Forest Hills1.5 miles13
Haslett2.2 miles13
East Lansing3.2 miles13
Meridian4.1 miles11
Lansing6.8 miles14
Holt7.3 miles14
Williamston8.0 miles11
Pollok8.8 miles13

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 OkemosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1870758The 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 633973. 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.