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Dowling, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Baltimore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49058. The Survey maps it on the Dowling quadrangle. 351 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 952 feet above sea level.

Dowling within Barry County

Population over time

2 figures

Dowling fell from 374 to 351 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
2010374
2020351-23 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

23 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Dowling between 2002 and 2020, burning about 109 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesORANGEVILLE TOWNSHIP VFD 0000250 - 2019
8 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHASTINGS FD 0000205 - 2018
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTON FD 0000172 - 2018
9 April 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2005Debris and open burning4.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2005Debris and open burning3.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dowling in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2000: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2000HailDowling$50,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindDowling-A local radio news announcer (also trained weather spotter) in Barry County reported a 60-mph wind gust in Dowling, located in Baltimore Township, 7 miles south of Hastings. Numerous trees were reportedly downed in the Dowling area. Approximately 4,600 homes lost power at the height of the storm in Barry County.

Every storm recorded in Barry 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
Vickery Landing1.6 miles12
Lacey3.9 miles19
Cedar Creek3.9 miles12
Banfield4.5 miles19
Quimby6.2 miles10
Schultz6.4 miles12
Maple Grove6.9 miles10
Cloverdale7.4 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 DowlingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8770550The 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 624850. 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.