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Spring Lake, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Spring Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49456. It lies near Eastmans Island. The Survey maps it on the Grand Haven quadrangle. 2,497 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 597 feet above sea level.

Spring Lake within Ottawa County

On record in Spring Lake

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Spring Lake grew from 2,323 to 2,497 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
20102,323
20202,497+174 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Spring Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRING LAKE TOWNSHIP FD 20066 - 2020
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCROCKERY TOWNSHIP FD 19385 - 2019
7 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND HAVEN DPS 191309 - 2019
7 August 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTON SHORES FD 0001666 - 2018
6 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND HAVEN TWP FIRE/RESCUE 19900 - 2019
14 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFERRYSBURG FD 19131 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Spring Lake: 5 producers, 4 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Construction Aggregates Corp PitClayPast Producer
Construction Aggregates Corp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Construction Aggregates Corp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J V Burkett Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ferrysburg SiteSilicaProducerSedimentary
Holiday Hills SiteSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
North Sag SiteSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
Rosy MoundSilicaProducerSedimentary
Rycenga SiteSilicaProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Lake in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake1 killed, 1 hurtA two foot diameter tree fell on a car in motion in Spring Lake. As a result the driver was killed and the passenger incurred minor injuries.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake$100,000Several trees were blown down in the Spring Lake and Grand Haven areas.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake$100,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake$25,000Several large trees and power lines downed in the cities of Ferrysburg, Spring Lake, and Spring Lake Township.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake$15,000no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake$5,000Trees and power lines were downed in Spring Lake. Consumers Energy reported 300 customers in the Tri-Cities, Fruitport, and Coopersville areas lost power because of downed trees and wires.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake-Spring Lake Yacht Club measured wind.
April 2016HailSpring Lake-Quarter sized hail was reported near Spring Lake.

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Ferrysburg1.3 miles12
Grand Haven1.9 miles12
Snug Harbor3.1 miles12
Rosy Mound3.5 miles12
Clark Corners4.6 miles12
Nunica6.9 miles10
Agnew7.8 miles11
Robinson8.6 miles11

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 Spring LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2057136The 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 638599. 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.