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Hopkinsburg, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hopkins Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49328. The Survey maps it on the Martin quadrangle.

Hopkinsburg within Allegan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

14 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Hopkinsburg between 2011 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 1 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 use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
14 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distribution1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 05
11 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARTIN FIRE/RESCUE 0000075 - 2019
11 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWAYLAND FD 0000109 - 2018
6 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 04
22 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOPKINS AREA FD 0000050 - 2019
9 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWAYLAND FD 0000042 - 2020
27 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOPKINS AREA FD 0000039 - 2019
24 March 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOPKINS AREA FD 0000036 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hopkinsburg: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Pavlak PitLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Allegan Co Pit Cole BrosSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Allegan Co Pit Yerington ConstSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Miller Pit & Wash PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Millers Pit & Mill # 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Allegan County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hopkinsburg in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHopkinsburg$25,000A trained National Weather Service spotter reported numerous trees, utility poles, and power lines downed across the Hopkinsburg area.

Every storm recorded in Allegan 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
Hopkins3.1 miles9
Bradley3.3 miles9
Shelbyville3.9 miles9
Hilliards4.1 miles9
Wayland4.9 miles9
Watson5.7 miles9
Martin6.5 miles9
Monterey Center7.4 miles9

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 Q122542649The 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 628581. 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.