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Fennville, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Fennville City. It lies in ZIP code area 49408. The Survey maps it on the Fennville quadrangle. 1,745 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 666 feet above sea level.

Fennville within Allegan County

Population over time

2 figures

Fennville grew from 1,398 to 1,745 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
20101,398
20201,745+347 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Fennville city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Allegan and Barry Counties Michigan 1880, published 1880 - Fennville City

Tragic Events

The history of Hope is marked by an unusually long list of tragic episodes, in which there appears a list of one murder, two suicides, and six fatal accidents. First in prominence may be noted the killing of Dean S. Tyler, in June, 1878, by John R. Pitts. The testimony taken upon Pitts' trial showed that trouble originated between the two men by reason of Mrs.

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In the county-history sources

85,504 words on this township

History of Allegan and Barry Counties Michigan 1880, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Fennville City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Fennville City - 85,504 words.

Fires near this place

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Fennville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 179 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 use12
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
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
19 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 04
16 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLYDE TOWNSHIP FD 0000076 - 2018
14 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 02
4 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2001Railroad operations and maintenance5.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAMILTON FD 0000149 - 2018
21 May 1995Arson/incendiarism5.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 1992Recreation and ceremony12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fennville in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash 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
May 2000HailFennville$40,000no account filed
November 2020Thunderstorm WindFennville$25,000Several power lines and trees were blown down near Fennville.
April 2016HailFennville$25,000Hail of up to golf ball sized was reported near Fennville, and there were several reports of hail one and a half inches in diameter.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindFennville$25,000A 60 m.p.h. wind gust was reported by the general public in Fennville.
August 2003HailFennville$10,000Hail three quarters inch in diameter was reported four miles south of Fennville.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindFennville$10,000Trees and power lines downed in Fennville.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindFennville-Trees blown down by thunderstorm winds just south of town.
May 2000Flash FloodFennville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allegan 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
Pearl3.6 miles14
New Richmond3.7 miles15
Macks Landing3.8 miles15
Grange Corners4.8 miles14
Bravo5.6 miles14
Ganges5.9 miles14
East Saugatuck6.1 miles15
Douglas6.3 miles15

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 FennvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2716021The 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 625892. 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.