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Michiana, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in New Buffalo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49117. It stands on White Ditch. The Survey maps it on the New Buffalo West quadrangle. 200 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 607 feet above sea level.

Michiana within Berrien County

Population over time

2 figures

Michiana grew from 182 to 200 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
2010182
2020200+18 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

6 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Michiana between 2019 and 2020, burning about 6 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 use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
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
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 134 - 2020
3 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 103 - 2020
8 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 76 - 2019
8 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 75 - 2019
26 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 67 - 2020
9 November 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 196 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien 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 Michiana: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Michigan City PlantSilicaProducer

Every working recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Michiana in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 waterspout. 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
August 1997WaterspoutMichiana-Local law enforcement officials sighted a waterspout approximately 5 miles west of Michiana, just offshore, over Lake Michigan. The waterspout dissipated before moving ashore.

Every storm recorded in Berrien 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
Grand Beach1.1 miles10
New Buffalo4.2 miles13
Sokol Camp6.0 miles13
Gordon Beach7.3 miles13
Union Pier7.8 miles13
Lakeview8.0 miles13
Hooks Corner8.9 miles13
Lakeside9.7 miles13

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 MichianaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2634656The 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 632191. 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.