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Augusta, Michigan

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49012. It stands on Augusta Creek. The Survey maps it on the Augusta quadrangle. 864 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 804 feet above sea level.

Augusta within Kalamazoo County

On record in Augusta

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Augusta fell from 885 to 864 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
2010885
2020864-21 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

30 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Augusta between 2004 and 2020, burning about 101 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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 use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1

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
26 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 260 - 2020
18 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 278 - 2020
12 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 237 - 2020
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 03805 - 2018
9 June 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 183 - 2020
22 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRINGFIELD DPS 086 - 2020
20 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 184 - 2020
9 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUGUSTA-ROSS TWP FD 0000119 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo 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 Augusta: 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
Cole Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stoney Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kalamazoo County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Augusta in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2003: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2002Tornado (F1)Augusta$100,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindAugusta$25,000no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindAugusta$15,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindAugusta$10,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts blew down several trees in northeastern Kalamazoo county, about ten miles northwest of the city of Battle Creek.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindAugusta$10,000The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Department reported trees and power lines downed in and around Augusta in Ross Township.
May 2001HailAugusta$10,000no account filed
April 1998HailAugusta-no account filed
April 1994HailAugusta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kalamazoo 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
Howlandsburg2.7 miles21
Gull Lake3.0 miles21
Yorkville3.8 miles19
Midland Park4.2 miles19
South Gull Lake4.2 miles19
Galesburg4.8 miles21
Highland Park5.4 miles19
Richland6.1 miles19

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 AugustaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3211130The 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 620342. 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.