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Westphalia, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Westphalia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48894. The Survey maps it on the Westphalia quadrangle. 924 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Westphalia within Clinton County

Population over time

2 figures

Westphalia grew from 923 to 924 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
2010923
2020924+1 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Westphalia between 2019 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
11 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTPHALIA TOWNSHIP FD WFD1950 - 2019
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDALLAS TOWNSHIP FD 2019004 - 2019
25 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTPHALIA TOWNSHIP FD WFD1933 - 2019
2 April 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTPHALIA TOWNSHIP FD WFD2026 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westphalia in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. 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
May 2020FloodWestphalia$25,000Several roads were closed due to water over roads.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWestphalia$20,000no account filed
October 2006HailWestphalia$10,000Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported in Westphalia.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWestphalia$10,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWestphalia$5,000One 18 inch diameter tree was blown down in Westphalia and a 14 inch limb was blown down just east of Fowler.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWestphalia-An emergency manager reported several power lines were blown down west of Westphalia which also ignited a fire.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindWestphalia-One tree was blown down by estimated wind gusts of 58 mph.
May 1998HailWestphalia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Fowler5.9 miles14
Riley6.3 miles11
Eagle8.4 miles10
South Riley8.7 miles11
Wacousta8.7 miles11
Matherton9.8 miles10
Maple Rapids13.3 miles14
DeWitt13.6 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 WestphaliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1813048The 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 1616225. 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.