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Zeeland, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Zeeland City. It lies in ZIP code area 49464. The Survey maps it on the Holland East quadrangle. 5,719 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Zeeland within Ottawa County

On record in Zeeland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Zeeland grew from 5,504 to 5,719 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
20105,504
20205,719+215 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

19 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Zeeland between 2012 and 2020, burning about 25 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 19636 - 2019
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 19381 - 2019
23 August 2012Debris and open burning8.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTTAWA 02
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 19543 - 2019
10 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 20528 - 2020
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND FD 0002036 - 2018
6 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND FD 0002003 - 2018
17 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesZEELAND TOWNSHIP FD 19465 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Zeeland: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Zeeland Brick Co.Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zeeland in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004HailZeeland$50,000One and three quarters inch diameter hail was reported by the public one mile east of Zeeland.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindZeeland$25,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindZeeland$20,000Numerous trees were downed in Zeeland.
May 2004HailZeeland$15,000Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported by the public six miles east of Zeeland.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindZeeland$10,000Several trees and power lines were blown down by severe thunderstorm wind gusts in Zeeland.
August 2003HailZeeland$10,000Hail up to three quarters of an inch in diameter was reported four miles north of Zeeland, and hail briefly covered the ground there.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindZeeland$10,000Trees were downed by strong winds in Zeeland.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindZeeland$5,000Several tree limbs were knocked down near Zeeland.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindZeeland$5,000An emergency manager four miles east of Zeeland reported a 60 m.p.h. wind gust.
July 2014HailZeeland-An amateur radio operator reported one inch diameter hail near Zeeland.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindZeeland-A trained spotter near Zeeland estimated a peak wind gust of 65 mph and reported several six to twelve inch diameter trees were blown down. The public reported numerous tree branches blown down in Jenison and a 15 inch diameter branch down on a house.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindZeeland-A tree came down and also took power lines down in Zeeland.
May 1997HailZeeland-Hail covered the ground.
April 1994HailZeeland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Noordeloos2.9 miles11
Waverly3.7 miles11
Beaverdam4.0 miles9
Vriesland4.2 miles9
New Holland4.4 miles11
Drenthe4.6 miles9
Borculo5.0 miles11
Holland5.1 miles11

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 ZeelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1840466The 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 1616917. 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.