Vandalia, Michigan
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Penn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49095. The Survey maps it on the Vandalia quadrangle. 318 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresVandalia grew from 301 to 318 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 | 301 | |
| 2020 | 318 | +17 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 16 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.
- 1948 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1949 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Vandalia between 2018 and 2019, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PENN TOWNSHIP FD 0000034 - 2018 |
| 3 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PENN TOWNSHIP FD 0000026 - 2019 |
| 3 April 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002395 - 2019 |
| 26 December 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PENN TOWNSHIP FD 0000107 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Vandalia: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cass Co Pit Lowitz Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| West Rate Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vandalia in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 5 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vandalia | $5,000 | A tree was blown down onto power lines. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vandalia | - | Trained spotter reported several large trees were blown down on the north shore of Donnell Lake. A large tree was also blown down near Lewis Lake. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vandalia | - | Local media reported several trees, tree limbs and branches were blown down in and around Cassopolis and Vandalia. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vandalia | - | Power was also out along M-60. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vandalia | - | Law enforcement reported large trees down southeast of Vandalia. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Vandalia | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penn | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Spring Beach | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Diamond Shores | 3.1 miles | 16 | |
| Brownsville | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Eagle Point | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Williamsville | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| Wakelee | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Calvin Center | 5.0 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 Vandalia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1969943 | 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 1615496. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.





