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Gobles, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Gobles City. It lies in ZIP code area 49055. The Survey maps it on the Gobles West quadrangle. 851 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Gobles within Van Buren County

Population over time

2 figures

Gobles grew from 829 to 851 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
2010829
2020851+22 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

14 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Gobles between 2003 and 2019, burning about 14 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 August 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVAN BUREN 01 - 28TH ST
5 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000678 - 2019
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGOBLES-PINE GROVE FD 0000046 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLOOMINGDALE TOWNSHIP FD 0000032 - 2019
15 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLOOMINGDALE TOWNSHIP FD 0000036 - 2019
4 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGOBLES-PINE GROVE FD 0000023 - 2018
27 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAMILTON FD 1900100 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gobles in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2011: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 2006Thunderstorm WindGobles$50,000Numerous trees were blown down in Bloomingdale and Gobles.
April 2001HailGobles$25,000no account filed
August 2003HailGobles$15,000One inch diameter hail was reported in Gobles.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindGobles$10,000Several trees were blown down three miles north of Gobles including one which was blown down onto a car.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Gobles$10,000no account filed
May 2005HailGobles$5,000A severe storm produced seven eighths inch diameter hail one mile west of Gobles.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGobles-Law enforcement reported isolated tree damage and power lines down in the Gobles area.

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Pine Grove1.0 miles14
Kendall3.5 miles14
North Lake3.7 miles14
Bloomingdale4.4 miles13
Mentha5.6 miles14
Glendale5.7 miles13
Berlamont6.4 miles13
Almena7.2 miles14

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 GoblesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3308123The 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 626910. 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.