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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.

Stanwood within Mecosta County

Population over time

2 figures

Stanwood 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.

YearPeople Change
2010211
2020194-17 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

28 since 1995

Regional 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 use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
25 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAND LAKE FD 0000296 - 2019
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 696 - 2020
20 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 370 - 2020
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORLEY AREA FD 2019050 - 2019
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMECOSTA-AUSTIN FD 2019050 - 2019
6 May 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMECOSTA-AUSTIN FD 2018056 - 2018
31 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 239 - 2019
28 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMECOSTA 03

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mecosta County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Thunderstorm WindStanwood$25,000Some wind damage and hail was reported near Stanwood.
September 2006HailStanwood$10,000Law enforcement reported three quarters inch diameter hail five miles north of Stanwood.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindStanwood$2,000Mecosta county dispatch reported a downed tree brought down a couple of power lines near 8 mile road and US-131.

Every storm recorded in Mecosta 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
Borland2.9 miles14
Higbee Corner3.9 miles14
Morley6.1 miles13
Rustford7.3 miles14
Altona7.7 miles14
Canadian Lakes7.8 miles14
Big Rapids8.4 miles15
Rodney9.2 miles14

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 StanwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3319717The 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.