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Martin, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Martin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49070. The Survey maps it on the Martin quadrangle. 377 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Martin within Allegan County

Population over time

2 figures

Martin fell from 410 to 377 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
2010410
2020377-33 (-8%)

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

17 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Martin between 2011 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. None 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 use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARTIN FIRE/RESCUE 0000076 - 2018
11 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARTIN FIRE/RESCUE 0000075 - 2019
14 June 2017Debris and open burning7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 04 - MARTIN FIELD
6 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 04
1 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARTIN FIRE/RESCUE 0000054 - 2020
4 April 2019Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARTIN FIRE/RESCUE 0000039 - 2019
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGUN PLAIN CHARTER TWP FD 0000047 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Martin: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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
Millers Pit & Mill # 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hervig Mall PitLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Pavlak PitLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Allegan County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martin in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 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
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMartin$10,000The public near Martin reported that multiple large trees were blown down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMartin$10,000Trees and power lines downed in Martin.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMartin$10,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMartin$5,000Several trees were blown down near Martin.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindMartin$5,000Michigan State Police closed U.S. Highway 131 briefly near Martin in Martin Township to allow Consumers Energy crews restore electrical lines downed by fallen trees.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMartin$2,500Allegan County Central Dispatch reported downed trees blocked the intersection of 120th Avenue East and 10th Street near Martin.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindMartin-A trained spotter reported that tree limbs and signs as well as several trees were blown down across portions of Allegan county in Martin and also between Allegan and Hopkins.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMartin-A report from the broadcast media indicated that a twenty by thirty foot barn was destroyed by damaging wind gusts three miles southeast of Martin.

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
Monteith Station1.0 miles9
East Martin2.8 miles9
Watson3.2 miles9
Shelbyville4.0 miles9
Hooper4.6 miles9
Neeley5.3 miles9
Otsego6.0 miles17
Bradley6.4 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.

Wikipedia article on MartinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2454021The 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 631648. 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.