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Harbert, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Chikaming Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49115. The Survey maps it on the New Buffalo East quadrangle. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Harbert within Berrien County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

20 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Harbert between 2018 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 3 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 use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural3
Debris and open burning2

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
7 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 335 - 2019
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEESAW TOWNSHIP FD 18-0039 - 2018
4 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE TOWNSHIP FD 0000201 - 2018
22 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 143 - 2019
12 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 322 - 2018
12 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 235 - 2019
22 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 193 - 2019
19 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEESAW TOWNSHIP FD 20-0023 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Harbert: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Silica. 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
South Bridgman SiteSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harbert in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1997Thunderstorm WindHarbert$5,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHarbert-Trees down around Berrien County, including Chikaming Township.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindHarbert-Emergency management officials reported a eight inch diameter tree blown down into phone lines.
June 2014Flash FloodHarbert-Water was reported on many roadways across mainly the southern half of the county. The hardest hit areas were from Stevensville to Buchanan to Niles. Some vehicles were stranded in the high water with depths of 6 inches to nearly a foot in some locations. Damage estimates were not available.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHarbert-Emergency management officials reported a three to four block radius of Chikaming Township suffering widespread tree as well as structural damage. Tree damage ranged from large broken tree limbs to uprooted trees. Some of these trees impacted structures, causing roof damage. The location of the damage was immediately adjacent to the shores of Lake Michigan.
May 2010HailHarbert-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Berrien 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
Hazelhurst0.4 miles12
Birchwood0.7 miles12
Bethany Beach1.5 miles14
Shorewood Hills1.8 miles14
Turner Shores1.8 miles13
Tower Hill Shorelands2.3 miles14
Sawyer2.3 miles14
Lakeside2.6 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q24046047The 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 627748. 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.