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.
Population over time
2 figuresWalkerville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 247 | |
| 2020 | 246 | -1 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1931 USGS Walkerville NE quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Hesperia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Hersperia NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Walkerville East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
27 since 2000Regional 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 use | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OCEANA 04 |
| 2 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WALKERVILLE AREA FIRE/RESCUE 2018093 - 2018 |
| 10 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OCEANA 20 |
| 4 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WALKERVILLE AREA FIRE/RESCUE 80 - 2020 |
| 16 June 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WALKERVILLE AREA FIRE/RESCUE 60 - 2020 |
| 7 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HART FD 45 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2000 | Hail | Walkerville | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walkerville | $15,000 | Several trees were blown down near Ruby creek. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walkerville | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds uprooted large trees and severely damaged at least two unoccupied mobile homes. |
| October 2006 | Hail | Walkerville | $10,000 | The public reported seven eighths inch diameter hail in Colfax. |
| October 2006 | Hail | Walkerville | $10,000 | Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported in Colfax. |
| October 2006 | Hail | Walkerville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Hail | Walkerville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Walkerville | $5,000 | One inch diameter hail was reported three miles south of Walkerville. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walkerville | $5,000 | The public reported several trees blown down two miles west of Walkerville. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walkerville | - | Several trees were blown down near Walkerville. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walkerville | - | A severe thunderstorm produced an estimated peak wind gust of 61 mph. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colfax | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Elbridge | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Crystal Valley | 7.3 miles | 11 | |
| Ferry | 10.4 miles | 11 | |
| Hesperia | 11.0 miles | 11 | |
| Weare | 11.6 miles | 12 | |
| Saint Huberts | 12.0 miles | 11 | |
| Hart | 12.7 miles | 12 |
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 Walkerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2450310 | 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 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.






