Stanwood, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Mecosta Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49346. It stands on Macks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stanwood quadrangle. 194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresStanwood fell from 211 to 194 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 | 211 | |
| 2020 | 194 | -17 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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 Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Big Rapids SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Stanwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
28 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Stanwood between 1995 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SAND LAKE FD 0000296 - 2019 |
| 24 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 696 - 2020 |
| 20 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MORTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 370 - 2020 |
| 7 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MORLEY AREA FD 2019050 - 2019 |
| 7 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MECOSTA-AUSTIN FD 2019050 - 2019 |
| 6 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MECOSTA-AUSTIN FD 2018056 - 2018 |
| 31 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MORTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 239 - 2019 |
| 28 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MECOSTA 03 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stanwood in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | $25,000 | Some wind damage and hail was reported near Stanwood. |
| September 2006 | Hail | Stanwood | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported three quarters inch diameter hail five miles north of Stanwood. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanwood | $2,000 | Mecosta county dispatch reported a downed tree brought down a couple of power lines near 8 mile road and US-131. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borland | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Higbee Corner | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Morley | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Rustford | 7.3 miles | 14 | |
| Altona | 7.7 miles | 14 | |
| Canadian Lakes | 7.8 miles | 14 | |
| Big Rapids | 8.4 miles | 15 | |
| Rodney | 9.2 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 Stanwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3319717 | 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 1621761. 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.








