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Walkerville, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Leavitt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49459. The Survey maps it on the Walkerville East quadrangle. 246 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 889 feet above sea level.

Walkerville within Oceana County

Population over time

2 figures

Walkerville fell from 247 to 246 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
2010247
2020246-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

27 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Walkerville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 2 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 use11
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural2

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
27 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 04
2 August 2016Debris and open burning12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWALKERVILLE AREA FIRE/RESCUE 2018093 - 2018
10 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 20
4 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWALKERVILLE AREA FIRE/RESCUE 80 - 2020
16 June 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWALKERVILLE AREA FIRE/RESCUE 60 - 2020
7 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHART FD 45 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oceana County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walkerville in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. 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 2000HailWalkerville$50,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWalkerville$15,000Several trees were blown down near Ruby creek.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWalkerville$15,000Thunderstorm winds uprooted large trees and severely damaged at least two unoccupied mobile homes.
October 2006HailWalkerville$10,000The public reported seven eighths inch diameter hail in Colfax.
October 2006HailWalkerville$10,000Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported in Colfax.
October 2006HailWalkerville$10,000no account filed
October 2006HailWalkerville$10,000no account filed
July 2006HailWalkerville$5,000One inch diameter hail was reported three miles south of Walkerville.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindWalkerville$5,000The public reported several trees blown down two miles west of Walkerville.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWalkerville-Several trees were blown down near Walkerville.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWalkerville-A severe thunderstorm produced an estimated peak wind gust of 61 mph.

Every storm recorded in Oceana 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
Colfax3.1 miles11
Elbridge5.4 miles11
Crystal Valley7.3 miles11
Ferry10.4 miles11
Hesperia11.0 miles11
Weare11.6 miles12
Saint Huberts12.0 miles11
Hart12.7 miles12

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 WalkervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2450310The 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 1622051. 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.