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Reading, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Reading Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49274. The Survey maps it on the Reading quadrangle. 1,094 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,191 feet above sea level.

Reading within Hillsdale County

Population over time

2 figures

Reading grew from 1,078 to 1,094 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
20101,078
20201,094+16 (+1%)

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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Reading in 2018, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined1

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
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMDEN FIRE/RESCUE 0201820 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsdale County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reading in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 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
April 1996HailReading$2,000,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindReading$10,000TREE FELL ON A HOME WHICH SUSTAINED JUST MINOR DAMAGE.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindReading$1,000Emergency management reported a barn was blown down west of Reading.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindReading-Emergency management officials reported trees and power lines down.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindReading-Power lines were reported down in the area.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindReading-Trained spotters reported a tree uprooted across a local road.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindReading-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down in Reading.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindReading-Numerous trees blown down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindReading-Tree blown down.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindReading-LARGE BRANCHES DOWN AND POWER LINES DOWN
August 1995Thunderstorm WindReading-Tree damage reported by emergency director.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindReading-Tree and power line damage reported in town.
May 2007HailReading-no account filed
May 2003HailReading-no account filed
April 2003HailReading-no account filed
April 2003HailReading-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hillsdale 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
Cambria4.6 miles10
Bankers5.0 miles10
Montgomery5.2 miles11
Camden6.0 miles11
Austin7.6 miles14
Steamburg7.6 miles11
Allen8.2 miles11
Hillsdale8.3 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 ReadingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2101800The 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 635690. 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.

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.