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Newport, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Berlin Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48166. It stands on Yoas Drain. The Survey maps it on the Flat Rock quadrangle. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Newport within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

17 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Newport between 2011 and 2020, burning about 321 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1
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
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 191935 - 2019
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019475 -
18 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019457 -
19 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 19926 - 2019
16 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2020351 -
14 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASH TOWNSHIP FD 0006134 - 2019
27 April 2019Debris and open burning300 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019258 -
26 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesESTRAL BEACH VFD 0201911 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Newport: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Ritter's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
South Rockwood Clay MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newport in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1995Thunderstorm WindNewport2 hurt, $5,000Trees and powerlines were blown down.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindNewport$25,000A thunderstorm wind gust destroyed a barn, flinging the metal roof into a neighbor's yard. A boat and furniture inside the barn were damaged.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindNewport$5,000Numerous trees were reported blown down, with the largest estimated to be 18 inches in diameter.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNewport-A large tree was snapped in half.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindNewport-Large tree limbs down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindNewport-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
March 2016HailNewport-no account filed
May 2006HailNewport-no account filed
June 2006HailNewport-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindNewport-no account filed
July 1997HailNewport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Oldport1.3 miles18
Stony Creek3.0 miles18
Estral Beach4.1 miles13
Steiner4.3 miles17
Woodland Beach4.3 miles18
Stony Point4.8 miles18
Pointe aux Peaux4.9 miles18
Grafton4.9 miles17

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 NewportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q106982628The 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 633372. 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.