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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.

Fountain within Mason County

Population over time

2 figures

Fountain 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.

YearPeople Change
2010193
2020170-23 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

37 since 1992

Regional 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Natural1

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
15 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestTIRE
11 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMORESE RD
1 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOUNTAIN AREA FD 0078745 - 2019
31 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOUNTAIN AREA FD 0078362 - 2019
3 July 2020Fireworks1.4 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestLADY FINGER
25 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestFREESOIL
21 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCUSTER RD
20 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestHORSEPOWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ludington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2017Thunderstorm WindFountain$25,000A 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 2020Thunderstorm WindFountain$10,000Several trees were blown down near Fountain during the early morning hours.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindFountain$10,000Several trees were blown down in Fountain.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindFountain$10,000Trees and power lines were downed in Fountain.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindFountain$10,000no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindFountain$1,000An isolated severe storm brought down a tree that fell on Sugar Grove road.

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Batcheller3.9 miles9
Free Soil4.6 miles9
Tallman5.5 miles11
Sugar Grove6.1 miles9
Millerton6.8 miles10
Custer6.9 miles11
Walhalla7.3 miles11
Scottville8.3 miles10

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 FountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2696136The 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.