BlockBefore

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.

New Boston within Wayne County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

45 since 2018

Regional 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/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural10
Smoking1

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
24 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 589 - 2019
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURON TOWNSHIP FD 191239 - 2019
1 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURON TOWNSHIP FD 18930 - 2018
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURON TOWNSHIP FD 191022 - 2019
4 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROMULUS FD 0003111 - 2019
29 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURON TOWNSHIP FD 191142 - 2019
23 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURON TOWNSHIP FD 18884 - 2018
22 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 566 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Boston$2,000Tree limbs were downed.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindNew Boston-Large tree fell onto power line.
June 2023HailNew Boston-no account filed
June 2023HailNew Boston-no account filed
July 2019HailNew Boston-no account filed
August 2000HailNew Boston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Willow3.3 miles17
Martinsville3.3 miles19
French Landing3.8 miles19
Romulus4.1 miles19
Waltz4.3 miles17
Roulo4.7 miles19
Belleville5.2 miles19
Belleville North5.9 miles19

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 BostonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q759231The 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.