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Hart, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Hart Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49420. It stands on South Branch Pentwater River. The Survey maps it on the Hart quadrangle. 2,053 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

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Hart within Oceana County

On record in Hart

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 1 record

Population over time

4 figures

Hart grew from 464 to 2,053 between 1880 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
1880464
20001,950
20102,126+176 (+9%)
20202,053-73 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

41 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Hart between 1996 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 were 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 use21
Debris and open burning8
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2
Smoking1

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
21 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHELBY-BENONA FD 0000084 - 2019
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 18
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 19
7 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHART FD 84 - 2019
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHART FD 92 - 2020
6 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 01
6 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHART FD 77 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oceana 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 Hart: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Hart Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oceana County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hart in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
November 2020Thunderstorm WindHart$100,000Numerous trees were blown down across parts of Oceana county.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindHart$50,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHart$10,000Several trees were blown down.
March 2005Thunderstorm WindHart$10,000The Oceana county road commission reported that six trees were blown down across the county.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHart$10,000A few trees were blown down in Hard and several more trees were blown down across Oceana county, which also knocked down several power lines.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHart$10,000no account filed
March 2000HailHart$10,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindHart$5,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHart-Several trees and large limbs were blown down near Hart.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHart-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down just east of Hart.
July 2011HailHart-Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported in Hart.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHart-Several trees and power lines were blown down in Hart.
August 1998Flash FloodHart-flooding over parts of Oceana County
July 1994Thunderstorm WindHart-Several power outages were reported in the western portion of the county. Several large trees were downed by the wind.

Every storm recorded in Oceana 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
Mears3.2 miles11
Weare3.6 miles12
Shelby6.2 miles11
French Town6.3 miles10
Pentwater6.8 miles10
Elbridge7.7 miles11
Crystal Valley8.5 miles11
New Era9.7 miles11

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 HartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q932159The 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 1620137. 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.