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Saugatuck, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Saugatuck City. It lies in ZIP code area 49453. It stands on Goshorn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saugatuck quadrangle. 865 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Saugatuck within Allegan County

On record in Saugatuck

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Saugatuck fell from 925 to 865 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
2010925
2020865-60 (-6%)

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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Saugatuck between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 use3
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
7 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN #8
7 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAMILTON FD 0000149 - 2018
16 May 1992Recreation and ceremony12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP FD 2018256 - 2018
28 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 02
7 March 2012Debris and open burning8.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 01
26 March 2019Natural4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP FD 2019186 - 2019
26 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAAFSCHAP FD 2018146 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan 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 Saugatuck: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Laketown SiteSilicaProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Allegan County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saugatuck in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2005: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2000HailSaugatuck$100,000no account filed
July 2001Flash FloodSaugatuck$50,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSaugatuck$25,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSaugatuck$20,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in Saugatuck and Fennville.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindSaugatuck$20,000Several trees were blown down in Saugatuck and Allegan by thunderstorm wind gusts, as reported by area law enforcement.
June 2001HailSaugatuck$10,000no account filed
September 2001HailSaugatuck$5,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindSaugatuck$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSaugatuck-A trained weather spotter reported a 81 mph wind gust measured by his local anemometer. The spotter also reported a tree was downed across Michigan Highway 89 in the southern part of Saugatuck Township.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindSaugatuck-Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph in Saugatuck.
April 1998HailEast Saugatuck-no account filed
August 1993HailSaugatuck-no account filed

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
Douglas0.8 miles15
Oxbow0.9 miles15
Old Saugatuck1.0 miles15
Shorewood1.1 miles15
Beachmont1.3 miles15
Singapore (historical)1.6 miles15
Macks Landing3.0 miles15
Gibson3.9 miles15

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 SaugatuckAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2686437The 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 637271. 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.