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Hanover, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49241. The Survey maps it on the Hanover quadrangle. 472 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,115 feet above sea level.

Hanover within Jackson County

On record in Hanover

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Hanover grew from 441 to 472 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
2010441
2020472+31 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

15 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Hanover between 2018 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural4

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
12 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHANOVER TOWNSHIP FD 148 - 2019
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOMERSET TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 490 - 2018
3 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHANOVER TOWNSHIP FD 152 - 2020
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIBERTY TOWNSHIP FD 99 - 2019
6 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPULASKI TOWNSHIP FD 0000039 - 2019
24 April 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHANOVER TOWNSHIP FD 93 - 2020
21 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHANOVER TOWNSHIP FD 61 - 2019
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLITCHFIELD FD 2020-17 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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 Hanover: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Zenith Portland Cement Co Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanover in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
August 2021Thunderstorm WindHanover$50,000Several trees were uprooted and snapped off along a five mile path along Moscow road.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHanover$25,000Several trees were blown down near Hanover.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHanover$25,000no account filed
April 2006HailHanover$10,000The public in Hanover reported one inch diameter hail.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindHanover$5,000Jackson Central Dispatch reported trees uprooted along Fowler Road in Hanover Township. Local fire officials estimated winds gusted to 50 mph in the thunderstorm.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindHanover$5,000Trees reported downed in Hanover.
July 1997HailHanover-Jackson Central Dispatch relayed reports from Hanover Township fire officials of nickel-sized hail.
May 1998HailHanover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Stoney Point2.2 miles11
Horton3.9 miles11
Pulaski4.9 miles11
Concord7.2 miles11
Spring Arbor7.2 miles11
South Jackson7.7 miles19
Liberty8.0 miles18
Sandstone10.6 miles12

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 HanoverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3319804The 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 627738. 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.