Scottville, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Scottville City. It lies in ZIP code area 49454. The Survey maps it on the Scottville quadrangle. 1,356 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 692 feet above sea level.
On record in Scottville
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 1 record
Scottville Schoollisted 2001
Population over time
2 figuresScottville grew from 1,214 to 1,356 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,214 | |
| 2020 | 1,356 | +142 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1932 USGS Ludington NE quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Scottville quadrangle1:25000
Fires near this place
13 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Scottville between 1996 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. None 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 use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | SUNDAY |
| 3 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | WHELAN WALKER |
| 4 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SCOTTVILLE FD 20-0199 - 2020 |
| 7 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | CUSTER |
| 18 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SCOTTVILLE FD 19-0191 - 2019 |
| 8 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SCOTTVILLE FD 20-0144 - 2020 |
| 28 May 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DALTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000364 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scottville in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scottville | $25,000 | Law enforcement reported that trees and power lines were blown down across the county. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scottville | $25,000 | Several trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm wind gusts in Scottville. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scottville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scottville | $20,000 | Many trees and power lines were blown down in Scottville. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scottville | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scottville | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Scottville | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scottville | $10,000 | An isolated severe thunderstorm during the late evening hours blew down several trees and power lines in Scottville and Ludington (Mason county). |
| May 2001 | Hail | Scottville | $10,000 | An isolated severe thunderstorm produced nickel-sized diameter hail 3 miles south of Scottville. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Scottville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scottville | - | A trained weather spotter in Scottville reported a 70 mph wind gust as measured by his local anemometer. Trees and power lines were downed by severe thunderstorm winds in and around the city. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scottville | - | Official NWS Cooperative Observer measured a 66-mph wind gust in Scottville. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scottville | - | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees two miles north of Scottville. |
| February 1997 | Flash Flood | Scottville | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scottville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amber | 2.1 miles | 10 | |
| Custer | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Sugar Grove | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Riverton (historical) | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Wiley | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Fern | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Fountain | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Batcheller | 8.6 miles | 9 |
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 Scottville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2245129 | The 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 1621550. 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.





