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Hartford, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Hartford City. It lies in ZIP code area 49057. It stands on Hog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle. 2,515 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Hartford within Van Buren County

Population over time

2 figures

Hartford fell from 2,688 to 2,515 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
20102,688
20202,515-173 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

36 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Hartford between 1996 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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 use26
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 415 - 2020
13 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERVLIET FD 322 - 2020
12 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 425 - 2019
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 419 - 2019
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 334 - 2020
22 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERVLIET FD 189 - 2019
14 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 294 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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 Hartford: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Acolliney Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Van Buren County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartford in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 3 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
May 2000HailHartford$50,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHartford$20,000no account filed
March 2019HailHartford$5,000Hail of up to half dollar size (an inch and a quarter) was reported.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindHartford$1,000One tree was blown down in Hartford township.
June 2011HailHartford-Radar estimated that large hail fell from just southeast of Hartford to the north northeast across east central Van Buren county to north of Bloomingdale. A report of two inch diameter hail was received just east of Bangor.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindHartford-Isolated pulse severe thunderstorms producing winds in excess of 60 mph downing large trees in Hartford and Porter townships

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
Stoughton Corners1.6 miles10
McDonald4.1 miles11
Toquin4.6 miles11
Lawrence6.2 miles10
Keeler6.5 miles10
West Bangor7.1 miles11
Friendsville7.6 miles11
Bangor7.8 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 HartfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2731278The 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 627881. 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.