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Mattawan, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Antwerp Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49071. It stands on Mattawan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lawton quadrangle. 2,550 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Mattawan within Van Buren County

Population over time

2 figures

Mattawan grew from 1,997 to 2,550 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
20101,997
20202,550+553 (+28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

34 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Mattawan between 2004 and 2020, burning about 38 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
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
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTEXAS CHARTER TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000733 - 2019
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAW PAW VFD 0000142 - 2019
6 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMATTAWAN FD 096 - 2020
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAWTON FD 0000078 - 2019
1 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTEXAS CHARTER TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000523 - 2019
9 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSHTEMO TOWNSHIP FD 940 - 2020
6 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMATTAWAN FD 43 - 2018
6 May 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMATTAWAN FD 44 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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 Mattawan: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Bill Smith Kalamazoo County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mattawan in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2004: 2 hail, 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
May 2004HailMattawan$10,000Three quarters inch hail was reported by a trained spotter in Mattawan.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindMattawan-no account filed
May 1997HailMattawan-no account filed

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
Almena4.4 miles14
Lawton4.4 miles12
Paw Paw5.7 miles12
North Lake8.7 miles14
Teapot Dome9.6 miles12
Wildeys9.8 miles12
Mentha10.2 miles14
Kendall10.6 miles14

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 MattawanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2164076The 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 631736. 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.