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Thompsonville, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Weldon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49683. It stands on Little Betsie River. The Survey maps it on the Thompsonville quadrangle. 451 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Thompsonville within Benzie County

Population over time

2 figures

Thompsonville grew from 441 to 451 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
2010441
2020451+10 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Thompsonville between 2001 and 2019, burning about 27 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENZIE 01
6 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHOMPSONVILLE VFD 1900034 - 2019
29 April 2001Fireworks2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSTUMP FIRE
16 April 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2005Misuse of fire by a minor5.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANISTEE 01

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benzie County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thompsonville in 3 storm reports between 2001 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
July 2006Thunderstorm WindThompsonville$4,000Trees downed.
April 2024HailThompsonville-Report of three-quarter-inch hail.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindThompsonville-Large tree fell on van.

Every storm recorded in Benzie 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
Nessen City3.5 miles14
Wallin4.5 miles14
Weldon7.1 miles11
Bendon9.6 miles15
Platte River9.8 miles15
Honor10.7 miles10
Benzonia10.8 miles11
Beulah11.0 miles10

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 ThompsonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2609247The 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 1614783. 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.