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.
Population over time
2 figuresReading 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,078 | |
| 2020 | 1,094 | +16 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Reading quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMDEN FIRE/RESCUE 0201820 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Hail | Reading | $2,000,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reading | $10,000 | TREE FELL ON A HOME WHICH SUSTAINED JUST MINOR DAMAGE. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reading | $1,000 | Emergency management reported a barn was blown down west of Reading. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reading | - | Emergency management officials reported trees and power lines down. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reading | - | Power lines were reported down in the area. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reading | - | Trained spotters reported a tree uprooted across a local road. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reading | - | Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down in Reading. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reading | - | Numerous trees blown down. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reading | - | Tree blown down. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reading | - | LARGE BRANCHES DOWN AND POWER LINES DOWN |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reading | - | Tree damage reported by emergency director. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reading | - | Tree and power line damage reported in town. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Reading | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Reading | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Reading | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Reading | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Reading | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2101800 | 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 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.




