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.
Population over time
2 figuresThompsonville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 441 | |
| 2020 | 451 | +10 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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 Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Thompsonville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Thompsonville SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Thompsonville quadrangle1:25000
- 1983 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
9 since 2001Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.7 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BENZIE 01 |
| 6 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | THOMPSONVILLE VFD 1900034 - 2019 |
| 29 April 2001 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | STUMP FIRE |
| 16 April 2002 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2005 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 5.3 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MANISTEE 01 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thompsonville | $4,000 | Trees downed. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Thompsonville | - | Report of three-quarter-inch hail. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thompsonville | - | Large tree fell on van. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nessen City | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Wallin | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Weldon | 7.1 miles | 11 | |
| Bendon | 9.6 miles | 15 | |
| Platte River | 9.8 miles | 15 | |
| Honor | 10.7 miles | 10 | |
| Benzonia | 10.8 miles | 11 | |
| Beulah | 11.0 miles | 10 |
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 Thompsonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2609247 | 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 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.






