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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.

Three Oaks within Berrien County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Three 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,622
20201,370-252 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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 2018

Regional 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 use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural4

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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHREE OAKS FD 0000035 - 2019
22 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 143 - 2019
7 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 74 - 2019
22 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 193 - 2019
5 April 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 100 - 2020
21 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 120 - 2019
8 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 30 - 2020
25 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 92 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crosby Marl PitLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks$50,000Facebook photo shows a tree down onto a home in Three Oaks.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks$10,000Trees 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 2006Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks$5,000Berrien 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 2011Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks-Local law enforcement reported scattered trees and power lines down across the county.
May 2011HailThree Oaks-Law enforcement officials reported mainly pea size hail, with a few hailstones to the size of nickels.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks-A trained spotter reported around eight large pine trees, roughly 40 to 50 feet tall, uprooted.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks-Numerous trees were reported down across southern parts of county, including the Buchanan area.
December 2007Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks-Numerous trees were blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks-Trees reported down in the area.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks-Emergency management reported trees down in Three Oaks.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindThree Oaks-Large tree limbs down
February 2017HailThree Oaks-no account filed
June 2005HailThree Oaks-no account filed
August 2003HailThree Oaks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Berrien 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
Avery2.1 miles13
Hooks Corner3.7 miles13
Lakeside4.6 miles13
Union Pier4.8 miles13
Lakeview5.0 miles13
Turner Shores5.0 miles13
Harbert5.2 miles13
Gordon Beach5.3 miles13

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 OaksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2212822The 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.