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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.

Scottville within Mason County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Scottville 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,214
20201,356+142 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

13 since 1996

Regional 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 use6
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSUNDAY
3 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestWHELAN WALKER
4 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSCOTTVILLE FD 20-0199 - 2020
7 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCUSTER
18 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSCOTTVILLE FD 19-0191 - 2019
8 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSCOTTVILLE FD 20-0144 - 2020
28 May 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDALTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000364 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Thunderstorm WindScottville$25,000Law enforcement reported that trees and power lines were blown down across the county.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindScottville$25,000Several trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm wind gusts in Scottville.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindScottville$25,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindScottville$20,000Many trees and power lines were blown down in Scottville.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindScottville$20,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindScottville$20,000no account filed
July 2000HailScottville$20,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindScottville$10,000An isolated severe thunderstorm during the late evening hours blew down several trees and power lines in Scottville and Ludington (Mason county).
May 2001HailScottville$10,000An isolated severe thunderstorm produced nickel-sized diameter hail 3 miles south of Scottville.
March 2000HailScottville$10,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindScottville-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 1998Thunderstorm WindScottville-Official NWS Cooperative Observer measured a 66-mph wind gust in Scottville.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindScottville-Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees two miles north of Scottville.
February 1997Flash FloodScottville-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindScottville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Amber2.1 miles10
Custer3.2 miles11
Sugar Grove3.5 miles9
Riverton (historical)4.6 miles10
Wiley6.5 miles11
Fern8.2 miles11
Fountain8.3 miles9
Batcheller8.6 miles9

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 ScottvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2245129The 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.