Saint Johns, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1985. It stands in St. Johns City. It lies in ZIP code area 48879. The Survey maps it on the Saint Johns North quadrangle. 7,698 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 791 feet above sea level.
On record in Saint Johns
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 within a mile 3 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Giles J. Gibbs Building-Sugar Bowllisted 2000 · 0.1 miles away
Union Schoollisted 1980 · 0.3 miles away
East Ward Schoollisted 1980 · 0.5 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresSaint Johns fell from 7,865 to 7,698 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 | 7,865 | |
| 2020 | 7,698 | -167 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1918 USGS Perrinton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Perrinton quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS St. Johns North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Alma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Saint Johns between 2018 and 2019, burning about 9 acres in total. 3 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 | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST JOHNS FD 0003755 - 2018 |
| 12 July 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST JOHNS FD 0003948 - 2019 |
| 8 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST JOHNS FD 0003892 - 2019 |
| 25 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DALLAS TOWNSHIP FD 2019009 - 2019 |
| 3 March 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST JOHNS FD 0003652 - 2018 |
| 28 March 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST JOHNS FD 0003885 - 2019 |
| 25 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DEWITT AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY 0000088 - |
| 16 March 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST JOHNS FD 0003661 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Saint Johns: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moore Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| American Excavating Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ionia Co. Road Comm. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Karber Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Standard Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saint Johns in 2 storm reports in 1994: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Duplain | 6.5 miles | 14 | |
| Shepardsville | 7.1 miles | 14 | |
| Eureka | 7.5 miles | 14 | |
| Riley | 8.8 miles | 11 | |
| Fowler | 9.6 miles | 14 | |
| Ovid | 9.9 miles | 14 | |
| Maple Rapids | 10.0 miles | 14 |
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 Saint Johns | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1022802 | 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 636718. 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.







