Temperance, Michigan
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bedford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48182. It stands on North River. The Survey maps it on the Lambertville East quadrangle. 9,188 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresTemperance grew from 8,517 to 9,188 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 | 8,517 | |
| 2020 | 9,188 | +671 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 19 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.
- 1912 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Samaria quadrangle1:31680
- 1939 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Samaria quadrangle1:24000
- 1940 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1941 USGS Samaria quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Lambertville East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
33 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Temperance between 2018 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 6 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BEDFORD FD 0001996 - 2019 |
| 11 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BEDFORD FD 0001898 - 2018 |
| 29 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IDA TOWNSHIP VFD 284 - 2018 |
| 2 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WHITEFORD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000190 - 2019 |
| 30 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ERIE TOWNSHIP FD 260 - 2020 |
| 20 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ERIE TOWNSHIP FD 261 - 2019 |
| 28 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BEDFORD FD 0001429 - 2019 |
| 16 June 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IDA TOWNSHIP VFD 214 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Temperance in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | 2 hurt, $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | $65,000 | NWS storm survey reported a 40 foot by 40 foot roof section blown off the Bedford High School gymnasium. Numerous trees were also blown down in the area. The damage to the roof was so extensive that the entire roof had to be replaced, costing the school approximately $65K. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | $20,000 | A local newspaper article reported at least 8 utility poles, along M-125 between Sterns and Benore Roads, had snapped in half due to high winds in a thunderstorm. Total damages were estimated at roughly $20K. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | $9,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | $7,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Temperance | $3,000 | A tornado was reported to have struck the Village Meadows Subdivision, causing minor damage to a garage roof and knocking over a wooden play structure. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | $3,000 | Wires reported down. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | $3,000 | Law enforcement reported power lines and a tree down in Temperance. |
| July 2006 | Lightning | Temperance | $3,000 | Lightning struck a home under construction, destroying some siding and charring an electrical outlet. Property damage was estimated at roughly $3K. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | - | Multiple large trees and wires reported blown down, some of which fell onto houses in Bedford Township. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | - | Multiple trees reported blown down. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | - | A large tree was reported down. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | - | Multiple 3 inch diameter tree branches blown down. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | - | Large tree limbs were reported blown down. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | - | Spotters reported several large trees blown down in thunderstorm winds. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Temperance | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Temperance | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Temperance | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Temperance | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Temperance | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Temperance | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samaria | 2.1 miles | 19 | |
| Liberty Corners | 2.3 miles | 16 | |
| Ottawa | 2.6 miles | 19 | |
| Lambertville | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Vienna Junction | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Erie | 4.0 miles | 18 | |
| Yargerville | 4.5 miles | 19 | |
| Saint Anthony | 4.8 miles | 16 |
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 Temperance | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3316624 | 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 1614669. 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.











