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Benton Harbor, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1970. It stands in Benton Harbor City. It lies in ZIP code area 49022. It stands on Ox Creek. The Survey maps it on the Benton Harbor quadrangle. 9,103 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Benton Harbor within Berrien County

On record in Benton Harbor

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Benton Harbor fell from 10,038 to 9,103 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
201010,038
20209,103-935 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

61 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Benton Harbor between 2018 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 13 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 use26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Natural13
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
27 September 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOSEPH FD 228 - 2020
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOSEPH CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 2019068 - 2019
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOSEPH FD 159 - 2019
7 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000399 - 2019
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON HARBOR FD 293 - 2020
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 140 - 2020
22 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON HARBOR FD 238 - 2019
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000425 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Benton Harbor: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Saint Joseph Terminal MillLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this place

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Benton Harbor in 11 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBenton Harbor$3,000A tree fell onto power lines.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBenton Harbor-Emergency management officials reported a large tree down onto power lines.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBenton Harbor-Reports of trees down across roads just south of Benton Heights.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBenton Harbor-Trees down around Berrien County, including Benton Township.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBenton Harbor-Trees were reported blown down in Benton Harbor as well as south of Waltervliet.
June 2004Flash FloodBenton Harbor-Emergency management reported water above car tires flowing across I-94.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBenton Harbor-Trained spotter reported trees down in Benton Harbor. Winds were estimated near 70 MPH.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBenton Harbor-Law enforcement reported trees down in Benton Harbor.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBenton Harbor-Numerous trees reported down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBenton Harbor-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down near Benton Harbor.
August 2006HailBenton Harbor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Berrien 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
Higman Park1.2 miles10
Saint Joseph1.5 miles11
Orchard View Estates1.8 miles11
Fair Plain2.1 miles11
Benton Heights2.7 miles10
Mizpah Park3.3 miles10
Vineland3.9 miles11
Benton Center4.0 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 Benton HarborAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q818338The 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 621144. 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.