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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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
Hart Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2015
Population over time
4 figuresHart 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 464 | |
| 2000 | 1,950 | |
| 2010 | 2,126 | +176 (+9%) |
| 2020 | 2,053 | -73 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1931 USGS Hart quadrangle1:31680
- 1931 USGS Hart NE quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Hart quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1976 USGS Hart NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Hart quadrangle1:25000
- 1983 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
41 since 1996Regional 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 use | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 August 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2019 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SHELBY-BENONA FD 0000084 - 2019 |
| 8 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OCEANA 18 |
| 8 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OCEANA 19 |
| 7 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HART FD 84 - 2019 |
| 6 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HART FD 92 - 2020 |
| 6 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.4 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OCEANA 01 |
| 6 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HART FD 77 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hart Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart | $100,000 | Numerous trees were blown down across parts of Oceana county. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down. |
| March 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart | $10,000 | The Oceana county road commission reported that six trees were blown down across the county. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart | $10,000 | A 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Hart | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart | - | Several trees and large limbs were blown down near Hart. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart | - | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down just east of Hart. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Hart | - | Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported in Hart. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart | - | Several trees and power lines were blown down in Hart. |
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Hart | - | flooding over parts of Oceana County |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hart | - | Several power outages were reported in the western portion of the county. Several large trees were downed by the wind. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mears | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Weare | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Shelby | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| French Town | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Pentwater | 6.8 miles | 10 | |
| Elbridge | 7.7 miles | 11 | |
| Crystal Valley | 8.5 miles | 11 | |
| New Era | 9.7 miles | 11 |
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 Hart | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q932159 | The 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.







