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Rothbury, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49452. The Survey maps it on the Shelby quadrangle. 462 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 702 feet above sea level.

Rothbury within Oceana County

Population over time

2 figures

Rothbury grew from 432 to 462 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
2010432
2020462+30 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Rothbury between 1992 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 use10
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
22 August 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 14
8 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 14
8 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 17
8 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 11
11 July 2012Smoking1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 09
1 July 2010Recreation and ceremony4.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 03
22 June 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 June 2018Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTAGUE FD 0000199 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oceana County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rothbury in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2008: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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
August 2004Thunderstorm WindRothbury$10,000Several trees were blown down in Rothbury, as reported by law enforcement.
March 2000HailRothbury$10,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRothbury-Several healthy trees were blown down around Rothbury.
February 1997Flash FloodRothbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oceana 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
New Era3.6 miles11
Shelby7.0 miles11
Ferry8.4 miles11
Stony Lake8.9 miles7
Mears12.6 miles11
Hart13.2 miles12
Little Point Sable13.4 miles6
Elbridge14.1 miles11

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 RothburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2919108The 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 1621442. 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.