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Nottawa, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Nottawa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49075. The Survey maps it on the Nottawa quadrangle. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Nottawa within St. Joseph County

On record in Nottawa

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Nottawa between 2019 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
25 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRI-TOWNSHIP FD 000264 - 2019
13 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLON FIRE/RESCUE 052 - 2020
30 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRI-TOWNSHIP FD 000398 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Joseph County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Nottawa: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Wiggins Kent County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Joseph County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nottawa in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2015: 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
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNottawa-Large tree down on M-86 and Nottawa Road.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindNottawa-A trained spotter reported multiple eight inch diameter tree limbs down at Nottawa Road and M-86.

Every storm recorded in St. Joseph 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
Wasepi1.7 miles11
Centreville4.2 miles15
Findley4.4 miles10
Fairfax5.1 miles10
Mendon6.0 miles14
Colon7.1 miles10
Sturgis8.4 miles10
Burr Oak8.5 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q136346984The 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 1624792. 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.