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New Buffalo, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1983. It stands in New Buffalo City. It lies in ZIP code area 49117. It stands on Galien River. The Survey maps it on the New Buffalo East quadrangle. 1,708 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

New Buffalo within Berrien County

Population over time

2 figures

New Buffalo fell from 1,883 to 1,708 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
20101,883
20201,708-175 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

18 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of New Buffalo between 2019 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 8 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
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning1

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
27 September 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 175 - 2020
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 134 - 2020
22 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 143 - 2019
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
7 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 74 - 2019
22 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 193 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Buffalo in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 hail. 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
June 1996Flash FloodNew Buffalo$50,000no account filed
October 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Buffalo$15,000Several 3 to 4 foot diameter trees, some as high as 40 feet, were snapped in half as winds estimated over 60 mph accompanied a cluster of thunderstorms. The damage extended from the Union Pier and Sokol Camp area northeast along the shore towards Bridgman. 3 buildings suffered minor damage from flying debris.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Buffalo$10,000Numerous trees down in and around New Buffalo.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindNew Buffalo$5,000Trees and power lines down in New Buffalo reported by Berrien County sheriff.
October 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Buffalo$5,000no account filed
May 2024HailNew Buffalo$1,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Buffalo-Large trees down onto a home on Marx drive.
July 2023Flash FloodNew Buffalo-Water rushing across the roadway. Lots of flooding in Hickory Creek Park in Stevensville. 4.91 inches of rain fell in Niles and 5.14 inches in St. Joseph.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindNew Buffalo-Large limbs reported down, some onto power lines.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Buffalo-Amateur radio operators reported a handful of trees and power lines down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindNew Buffalo-Numerous reports of trees and power lines down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindNew Buffalo-A state trooper reported trees down in New Buffalo.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Buffalo-Trained spotters reported several trees being blown down.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindNew Buffalo-Law enforcement reported power lines down in New Buffalo.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Buffalo-Numerous trees and power lines down.
March 2017HailNew Buffalo-no account filed

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
Sokol Camp1.9 miles13
Grand Beach3.2 miles10
Gordon Beach3.2 miles13
Union Pier3.6 miles13
Lakeview3.8 miles13
Michiana4.2 miles10
Hooks Corner4.6 miles13
Lakeside5.6 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 New BuffaloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q748747The 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 633317. 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.