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.
Population over time
2 figuresFennville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,398 | |
| 2020 | 1,745 | +347 (+25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1928 USGS Fennville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1931 USGS Fennville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Fennville quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Holland quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Fennville city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
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.
In the county-history sources
85,504 words on this townshipHistory 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 1992Regional 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 use | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALLEGAN 04 |
| 16 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLYDE TOWNSHIP FD 0000076 - 2018 |
| 14 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALLEGAN 02 |
| 4 July 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 July 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.4 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HAMILTON FD 0000149 - 2018 |
| 21 May 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 May 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | 12 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Hail | Fennville | $40,000 | no account filed |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fennville | $25,000 | Several power lines and trees were blown down near Fennville. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Fennville | $25,000 | Hail 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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fennville | $25,000 | A 60 m.p.h. wind gust was reported by the general public in Fennville. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Fennville | $10,000 | Hail three quarters inch in diameter was reported four miles south of Fennville. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fennville | $10,000 | Trees and power lines downed in Fennville. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fennville | - | Trees blown down by thunderstorm winds just south of town. |
| May 2000 | Flash Flood | Fennville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pearl | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| New Richmond | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Macks Landing | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Grange Corners | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Bravo | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Ganges | 5.9 miles | 14 | |
| East Saugatuck | 6.1 miles | 15 | |
| Douglas | 6.3 miles | 15 |
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 Fennville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2716021 | The 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.





