South Boardman, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Boardman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49680. It stands on Shannon Creek. The Survey maps it on the South Boardman quadrangle. 509 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSouth Boardman fell from 536 to 509 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 | 536 | |
| 2020 | 509 | -27 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fife Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS South Boardman quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
37 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of South Boardman between 1992 and 2019, burning about 131 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BOARDMAN TOWNSHIP FD 0020952 - 2019 |
| 21 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GRAND TRAVERSE 0002 |
| 20 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.4 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GRAND TRAVERSE 07 |
| 10 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 July 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 July 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Boardman in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Hail | South Boardman | - | Report of dime sized hail from mping. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Boardman | - | A few trees down. |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F0) | South Boardman | - | A fire department spotter observed a tornado as it touched down in an open field. No damage was reported. Several other funnel clouds were sighted across western and southern portions of the county between 1700 EST and 1900 EST. |
| June 2000 | Hail | South Boardman | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | South Boardman | - | 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 South Boardman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q27340078 | 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 638270. 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.





