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Scotts, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Pavilion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49088. The Survey maps it on the Adams Park quadrangle. 187 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Scotts within Kalamazoo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Scotts between 2018 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
31 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAVILION TOWNSHIP FD 0000289 - 2019
27 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 262 - 2020
12 August 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAVILION TOWNSHIP FD 0000273 - 2019
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0000840 - 2018
2 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIMAX TOWNSHIP FD 0000079 - 2019
1 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAVILION TOWNSHIP FD 0000149 - 2018
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAVILION TOWNSHIP FD 0000130 - 2018
22 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000331 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scotts in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 4 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
June 2006Thunderstorm WindScotts$20,000Several trees were blown down in and near the village of Scotts.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindScotts$20,000Law enforcement reported large trees were blown down in Scotts.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindScotts$20,000Several trees were blown down in Scotts, as reported by area law enforcement.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindScotts$10,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kalamazoo 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
Cooks Mill1.8 miles14
Pavilion2.9 miles14
Pavillion Center3.7 miles14
Pomeroy3.7 miles14
Collins Corner3.8 miles14
Adams Park4.3 miles14
Climax5.1 miles14
Lemon Park5.4 miles14

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 ScottsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7438145The 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 637482. 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.