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.
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
Goetsch-Winckler Houselisted 1995
Population over time
2 figuresOkemos 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 21,369 | |
| 2020 | 25,121 | +3,752 (+18%) |
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.
- 1909 USGS Mason quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Mason 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
- 1970 USGS East Lansing quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Lansing quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
40 since 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903752 - 2019 |
| 20 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903926 - 2019 |
| 2 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LANSING FD 0015086 - 2018 |
| 9 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903338 - 2019 |
| 5 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LANSING TOWNSHIP FD 0000353 - 2018 |
| 16 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903431 - 2019 |
| 15 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | EAST LANSING FD 0003100 - 2018 |
| 29 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1803121 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Briggs Company Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Jolly Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okemos | $10,000 | A few trees and tree limbs were blown down near Haslett where wind gusts up to 60 mph were reported. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okemos | - | A number of large trees snapped and uprooted in Okemos. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okemos | - | A trained spotter estimated that thunderstorm wind gusts reached 60 mph in Okemos. |
| August 1997 | Hail | Okemos | - | Okemos Police Department reported 3/4 inch diameter hail in Okemos. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Hills | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Haslett | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| East Lansing | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Meridian | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Lansing | 6.8 miles | 14 | |
| Holt | 7.3 miles | 14 | |
| Williamston | 8.0 miles | 11 | |
| Pollok | 8.8 miles | 13 |
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 Okemos | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1870758 | 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 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.






