Three Oaks, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Three Oaks Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49128. The Survey maps it on the Three Oaks quadrangle. 1,370 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 692 feet above sea level.
On record in Three Oaks
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 2 records
Union Meat Marketlisted 1972
Warren Featherbone Company Office Buildinglisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresThree Oaks fell from 1,622 to 1,370 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 | 1,622 | |
| 2020 | 1,370 | -252 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1930 USGS Three Oaks quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Three Oaks quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Three Oaks quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS South Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Three Oaks between 2018 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | THREE OAKS FD 0000035 - 2019 |
| 22 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 143 - 2019 |
| 7 June 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 74 - 2019 |
| 22 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHIKAMING FD 193 - 2019 |
| 5 April 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHIKAMING FD 100 - 2020 |
| 21 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHIKAMING FD 120 - 2019 |
| 8 March 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 30 - 2020 |
| 25 March 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHIKAMING FD 92 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Three Oaks: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crosby Marl Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Clay Prospect | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
15 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Three Oaks in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Three Oaks | $50,000 | Facebook photo shows a tree down onto a home in Three Oaks. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Three Oaks | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down in the area. Reports of a brief tornado touchdown were received at the intersection of Avery Road and US-12. A official survey of the area determined that the damage was the result of straight line winds of 60 tp 65 mph. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Three Oaks | $5,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Three Oaks | $5,000 | Berrien County officials reported winds snapped off pine trees and blew the roof off of a resident's garage and dumped it 300 feet away from the garage.Downed power lines cut power to approximately 1300 customers in Berrien County. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Three Oaks | - | Local law enforcement reported scattered trees and power lines down across the county. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Three Oaks | - | Law enforcement officials reported mainly pea size hail, with a few hailstones to the size of nickels. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Three Oaks | - | A trained spotter reported around eight large pine trees, roughly 40 to 50 feet tall, uprooted. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Three Oaks | - | Numerous trees were reported down across southern parts of county, including the Buchanan area. |
| December 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Three Oaks | - | Numerous trees were blown down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Three Oaks | - | Trees reported down in the area. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Three Oaks | - | Emergency management reported trees down in Three Oaks. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Three Oaks | - | Large tree limbs down |
| February 2017 | Hail | Three Oaks | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Three Oaks | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Three Oaks | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avery | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Hooks Corner | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Lakeside | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Union Pier | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Lakeview | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Turner Shores | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Harbert | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Gordon Beach | 5.3 miles | 13 |
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 Three Oaks | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2212822 | 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 1614822. 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.





