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Reed City, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Reed City City. It lies in ZIP code area 49677. It stands on Hewitt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Reed City North quadrangle. 2,490 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.

Reed City within Osceola County

Population over time

2 figures

Reed City grew from 2,425 to 2,490 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
20102,425
20202,490+65 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Reed City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSCEOLA 06
17 September 2002Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREED CITY FD 340 - 2020
30 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREED CITY FD 387 - 2018
11 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMECOSTA 06

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osceola 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 Reed City: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Potassium. 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
Big RapidsPotassiumProspect
Hersey Gravel ProductsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Osceola County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reed City in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindReed City$150,000no account filed
September 2021HailReed City$50,000Severe storms brought damaging wind gusts and hail up to one and three quarters inches in diameter.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindReed City$25,000Several trees were blown down across area roads.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindReed City$15,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Reed City.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindReed City$5,000The public reported that several trees were blown down near US-131.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindReed City$5,000A trained spotter in Reed City reported that two trees were blown down.
July 2002HailReed City$5,000One inch hail was reported with an isolated early morning thunderstorm in Reed City (Osceola county).
February 1997Flash FloodReed City-no account filed
May 1996HailReed City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osceola 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
Hersey3.9 miles14
Orono4.8 miles13
Slaybaugh Corner6.6 miles13
Ashton6.8 miles13
Dewing's (historical)8.8 miles14
Le Roy11.6 miles12
Evart13.5 miles13
Tustin15.9 miles12

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 Reed CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2629803The 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 1621363. 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.