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Argentine, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Argentine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48451. It lies near Stage Island. The Survey maps it on the Linden quadrangle. 2,685 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

Argentine within Genesee County

Population over time

3 figures

Argentine grew from 2,285 to 2,685 between 2000 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
20002,285
20102,525+240 (+11%)
20202,685+160 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Argentine between 1993 and 2019, burning about 44 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 use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2

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
18 June 2018Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTLAND AREA FD 0000402 - 2018
13 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000209 - 2018
12 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLINDEN CITY FD 0000132 - 2018
8 May 1993Smoking10 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000122 - 2019
6 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTLAND AREA FD 0000199 - 2019
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000152 - 2018
18 April 2006Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee 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 Argentine: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bentley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Argentine in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 12 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindArgentine$250,000Trees and power lines reported down, damage to 7 homes. Barn roof blown off.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindArgentine$25,000no account filed
September 2014Thunderstorm WindArgentine$5,000Numerous trees and wires down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindArgentine$5,000Large trees and wires reported blown down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindArgentine$3,000Trees reported blown down along with a power line.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindArgentine-Multiple trees reported down in Argentine.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindArgentine-Tree blown onto a road.
May 2012FloodArgentine-Flash flooding from 4 to 7 inches of rain took half a day to recede.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindArgentine-A large tree was reported blown down onto a road.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindArgentine-A trained spotter measured a 62 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindArgentine-A trained spotter measured a 64 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindArgentine-A trained spotter reported two trees blown down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindArgentine-A trained spotter reported large tree limbs down.
April 2022HailArgentine-no account filed
July 2000HailArgentine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
Linden3.7 miles14
Gaines6.7 miles14
Fenton7.5 miles14
Lakeside8.0 miles14
Bayport Park8.1 miles14
Lake Fenton8.3 miles14
Rankin9.9 miles13
Duffield10.0 miles13

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 ArgentineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2295970The 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 620210. 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.