Fountain, Michigan
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Sherman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49410. The Survey maps it on the Free Soil quadrangle. 170 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 709 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFountain fell from 193 to 170 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 | 193 | |
| 2020 | 170 | -23 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1931 USGS Freesoil SW quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Freesoil quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Manistee quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Freesoil quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
37 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Fountain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 78 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 burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | TIRE |
| 11 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | MORESE RD |
| 1 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FOUNTAIN AREA FD 0078745 - 2019 |
| 31 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FOUNTAIN AREA FD 0078362 - 2019 |
| 3 July 2020 | Fireworks | 1.4 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | LADY FINGER |
| 25 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | FREESOIL |
| 21 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | CUSTER RD |
| 20 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | HORSEPOWER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fountain: 1 producer. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludington Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fountain in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fountain | $25,000 | A severe thunderstorm produced a measured wind gust of 65 mph. Two vehicle crashes due to several trees down across Custer rd. were reported with no injuries. A downed high voltage line cut power to most of Ludington. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fountain | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down near Fountain during the early morning hours. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fountain | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down in Fountain. |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fountain | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were downed in Fountain. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fountain | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fountain | $1,000 | An isolated severe storm brought down a tree that fell on Sugar Grove road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Batcheller | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| Free Soil | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Tallman | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Sugar Grove | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Millerton | 6.8 miles | 10 | |
| Custer | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Walhalla | 7.3 miles | 11 | |
| Scottville | 8.3 miles | 10 |
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 Fountain | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2696136 | 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 1619960. 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.





