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Prudenville, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Denton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48651. It stands on Knappen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Prudenville quadrangle. 1,643 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,145 feet above sea level.

Prudenville within Roscommon County

Population over time

3 figures

Prudenville fell from 1,737 to 1,643 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
20001,737
20101,682-55 (-3%)
20201,643-39 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Prudenville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 149 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural2
Smoking1

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
15 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 04 - WACO RD EQUIPMENT FIRE
9 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 1992Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestPAVILLION
4 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 28
4 July 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 12
24 June 2009Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 11

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roscommon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Prudenville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jess Stanley Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Roscommon County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prudenville in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindPrudenville$6,000Trees were downed just east of Prudenville, across Roscommon Road and Misty Pine Trail.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindPrudenville$5,000Several trees were downed.
July 2005LightningPrudenville$5,000Lightning struck a radio tower, damaging equipment in a nearby building.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPrudenville$4,000Two pontoon boats on the Houghton Lake shoreline were ripped off their hoists and flipped upside-down into the lake.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindPrudenville$2,500A tree and multiple power lines were downed near Lake James.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPrudenville$2,000A tree and a power line were downed by strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPrudenville$2,000Trees downed at M-18 and Doyle Trail.
April 2011HailPrudenville-Penny-sized hail fell at the intersection of M-55 and M-18.
June 2011Funnel CloudPrudenville-A shower managed to produce a funnel cloud over the east end of Houghton Lake.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPrudenville-Strong thunderstorm winds downed several trees along M-18.
June 2008HailPrudenville-no account filed
May 1998HailPrudenville-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindPrudenville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roscommon 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
Houghton Lake6.1 miles13
Houghton Lake Heights6.8 miles13
Houghton Point7.6 miles13
Loxley7.9 miles13
Maple Valley8.5 miles10
Sharps Corners8.6 miles11
Nellsville8.9 miles13
Artesia Beach9.4 miles10

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 PrudenvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q952498The 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 635500. 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.