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New Richmond, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Manlius Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49408. It stands on Mann Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton West quadrangle.

New Richmond within Allegan County

On record in New Richmond

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

6 surveys from 15 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of New Richmond between 1992 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 were 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 use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAAFSCHAP FD 2018470 - 2018
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAMILTON FD 0000149 - 2018
21 May 1995Arson/incendiarism5.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 1992Recreation and ceremony12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 May 1995Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP FD 2018256 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Richmond in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Richmond-A trained spotter near New Richmond reported an estimated wind gust to 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Allegan 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
East Saugatuck2.4 miles15
Macks Landing2.8 miles15
Fennville3.7 miles14
Douglas5.0 miles15
Saugatuck5.1 miles15
Oxbow5.4 miles15
Hamilton5.6 miles15
Old Saugatuck5.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 633336. 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.