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Vicksburg, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Schoolcraft Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49097. The Survey maps it on the Vicksburg quadrangle. 3,706 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Vicksburg within Kalamazoo County

On record in Vicksburg

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Vicksburg grew from 2,906 to 3,706 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
20102,906
20203,706+800 (+28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

12 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Vicksburg between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. None 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/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000617 - 2018
16 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000560 - 2018
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000279 - 2019
26 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000348 - 2019
24 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORTAGE FD 0001678 - 2019
22 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000331 - 2019
11 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORTAGE FD 0001547 - 2018
27 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAVILION TOWNSHIP FD 0000094 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Vicksburg: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Hayward Dry Marl PitLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kalamazoo County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vicksburg in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 1 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
May 2020FloodVicksburg$100,000Several roads were closed due to flooding.
May 2004HailVicksburg$100,000One inch diameter hail was reported in Vicksburg, in addition to estimated thunderstorm wind gusts to 70 m.p.h.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindVicksburg$50,000A few trees were blown down near Vicksburg.
June 1994HailVicksburg$50,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees, and roofs were blown off several houses.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindVicksburg$50,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees, and roofs were blown off several houses.
May 2000HailVicksburg$50,000no account filed
March 2006HailVicksburg$25,000The public in Vicksburg reported golf ball sized hail covered the ground with hail measured as large as two and a quarter inches in diameter.
March 2006HailVicksburg$25,000The public in Vicksburg reported hail as large as two and a quarter inches in diameter and hail briefly covered the ground.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindVicksburg$25,000Several trees were blown down three miles northeast of Vicksburg.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindVicksburg$20,000Nine trees were blown down in the Vicksburg area.
July 2000HailVicksburg$20,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindVicksburg$15,000A 68 mph wind gust was measured at Kalamazoo airport and a street sign and several large healthy trees were blown down.
September 2006HailVicksburg$15,000Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported in Vicksburg where it briefly covered the ground.
August 2003HailVicksburg$15,000A report of one inch diameter hail was received from three miles east of Vicksburg.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindVicksburg$10,000The public reported that six trees were blown down five miles east of Vicksburg.
March 2003HailVicksburg$10,000A severe thunderstorm produced three quarters inch hail in Vicksburg.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindVicksburg$10,000A 60 m.p.h. wind gust was reported in Vicksburg.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindVicksburg$5,000An isolated severe storm brought down several large trees in Vicksburg in southern Kalamazoo county. A funnel cloud was also reported but there were no tornados. One and a quarter inch diameter hail was also reported near Vicksburg.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindVicksburg$5,000Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Department reported a couple of trees were downed in Vicksburg.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindVicksburg$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindVicksburg$2,500Trees downed along V-Avenue, just east of Vicksburg in Brady Township.
July 2023HailVicksburg-A trained spotter reported one inch diameter hail near Vicksburg.
June 2008HailVicksburg-Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported.
June 2008HailVicksburg-One inch diameter hail was reported in Vicksburg.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindVicksburg-pulse storm produced bow echo across extreme southern Michigan and northern Indiana
July 1998Thunderstorm WindVicksburg-Amateur radio operators reported an estimated 65-mph wind gust in Vicksburg, which downed up to 10 trees. Two 24" diameter trees were snapped of 8 feet above the ground and landed on a bowling alley. A damage estimate was not available. This severe thunderstorm downed trees and power lines scattered across Kalamazoo County, which resulted in power outages for approximately 26,000 customers of Consumers Energy.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindVicksburg-Power lines and trees down around Vine and Pearl Streets. A damage estimate was not available.

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
Lemon Park2.9 miles14
Adams Park3.9 miles14
Ramona Park4.8 miles15
Pavilion5.3 miles14
Schoolcraft5.6 miles15
Pomeroy5.7 miles14
Portage6.1 miles15
Pavillion Center6.2 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 VicksburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q925545The 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 1615573. 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.