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Watervliet, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1970. It stands in Watervliet City. It lies in ZIP code area 49098. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coloma quadrangle. 1,669 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Watervliet within Berrien County

On record in Watervliet

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

Watervliet fell from 1,735 to 1,669 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
20101,735
20201,669-66 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

43 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Watervliet between 2018 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 13 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 use27
Natural13
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 142 - 2020
13 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERVLIET FD 322 - 2020
12 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 425 - 2019
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 419 - 2019
9 July 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 100 - 2020
8 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 106 - 2019
22 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERVLIET FD 189 - 2019
12 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 109 - 2019

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 Watervliet: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Acolliney Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Berrien Sand QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Watervliet in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWatervliet$70,000Trees and power lines were reported down in Watervliet. A home as well as 2 cars suffered damage in Coloma as high winds brought down a large tree. Damage amount estimated.
April 2023FloodWatervliet-Flooding on 70th Street south of I-94. Photo via twitter shows road covered with water.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWatervliet-Emergency management reported trees down in Watervliet.

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
Paw Paw Lake1.9 miles11
Coloma2.5 miles11
Little Paw Paw Lake2.6 miles11
Bainbridge Center5.0 miles10
Millburg6.2 miles10
Lake Michigan Beach6.2 miles11
Riverside6.5 miles10
Napier6.5 miles10

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 WatervlietAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3308099The 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 1615862. 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.