New Boston, Michigan
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Huron Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48164. It stands on Hosmer Drain. The Survey maps it on the Belleville quadrangle. 7,792 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 636 feet above sea level.
On record in New Boston
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Waltz Road-Huron River Bridgelisted 2000 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Romulus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1928 USGS Romulus quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
45 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of New Boston between 2018 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 10 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/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 589 - 2019 |
| 22 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HURON TOWNSHIP FD 191239 - 2019 |
| 1 September 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HURON TOWNSHIP FD 18930 - 2018 |
| 7 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HURON TOWNSHIP FD 191022 - 2019 |
| 4 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ROMULUS FD 0003111 - 2019 |
| 29 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HURON TOWNSHIP FD 191142 - 2019 |
| 23 August 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HURON TOWNSHIP FD 18884 - 2018 |
| 22 August 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 566 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Boston in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 4 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Boston | $2,000 | Tree limbs were downed. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Boston | - | Large tree fell onto power line. |
| June 2023 | Hail | New Boston | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | New Boston | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | New Boston | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | New Boston | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willow | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Martinsville | 3.3 miles | 19 | |
| French Landing | 3.8 miles | 19 | |
| Romulus | 4.1 miles | 19 | |
| Waltz | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Roulo | 4.7 miles | 19 | |
| Belleville | 5.2 miles | 19 | |
| Belleville North | 5.9 miles | 19 |
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 New Boston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q759231 | The 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 633315. 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.
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.










