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Mottville, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Mottville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49099. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mottville quadrangle.

Mottville within St. Joseph County

On record in Mottville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

26 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Mottville between 2003 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
4 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE PIGEON TWP FD 107 - 2020
20 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE PIGEON TWP FD 0000120 - 2018
12 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE PIGEON TWP FD 0097 - 2019
26 June 2017Arson/incendiarism13 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOSEPH 01 MICHIANA MULCH
20 June 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE PIGEON TWP FD 085 - 2020
20 June 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE PIGEON TWP FD 086 - 2020
2 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCONSTANTINE FD 109 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Joseph 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 Mottville: 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
L-Bob Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Joseph County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mottville in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2018: 2 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 2018Thunderstorm WindMottville-Amateur radio operators reported power poles were blown down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMottville-A tree was downed near Mottville, blocking State Route 12.

Every storm recorded in St. Joseph 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
Constantine5.5 miles14
White Pigeon6.0 miles14
Golden Pond Estates7.6 miles15
Fabius7.9 miles15
Breezy Beach10.5 miles15
Oakwood10.9 miles15
Bluff Beach11.7 miles15
Three Rivers12.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1624758. 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.