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White Pigeon, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1985. It stands in White Pigeon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49099. The Survey maps it on the Constantine quadrangle. 1,718 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

White Pigeon within St. Joseph County

On record in White Pigeon

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

White Pigeon grew from 1,522 to 1,718 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
20101,522
20201,718+196 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

31 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of White Pigeon between 2009 and 2020, burning about 49 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 use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3

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
5 August 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE PIGEON TWP FD 108 - 2020
4 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE PIGEON TWP FD 107 - 2020
29 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCONSTANTINE FD 211 - 2020
5 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE PIGEON TWP FD 091 - 2020
19 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE PIGEON TWP FD 0000120 - 2018
12 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE PIGEON TWP FD 0097 - 2019
20 June 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE PIGEON TWP FD 085 - 2020
20 June 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE PIGEON TWP FD 086 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Joseph 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 White Pigeon: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Api Dredge and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Joseph County

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Pigeon in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 17 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
October 2001Tornado (F1)White Pigeon1 hurt, $322,200Tornado touched down north of the Elkhart/St Joseph Michigan county line southwest of White Pigeon and skipped northeast before lifting north of White pigeon. F1 damage near SR 131 and SR 12 to buildings and high tension wires.
June 2010LightningWhite Pigeon$20,000A trained spotter reported that a house on Dickinson Road was struck by lightning and on fire.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon$20,000St. Joseph County Central Dispatch reported downed trees and power lines across White Pigeon Township. One tree landed on a vehicle at 309 S. Washington Street in White Pigeon. Intermittent power outages occurred at the height of the storm.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon$15,000A tree was blown over, crushing a car and part of a house.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon$5,000St. Joseph County Central Dispatch reported trees downed and minor street flooding in the White Pigeon area.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon$1,200A trained spotter reported trees and powerlines down in the area.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon$200The public reported tree limbs of 1 to 2 inch diameter down. The public estimated the wind to be 55 mph.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon-A report of 70 to 75 mph wind gusts was noted near White Pigeon.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon-Trees down across the town of White Pigeon.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon-Trained spotters reported several large tree limbs were blown down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon-Tree down onto a trailer on Fawn River Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon-Trees and power lines down. Time estimated by radar.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon-Amateur radio operators reported power lines down from tree limbs impacting the lines.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon-Numerous trees and power lines down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon-Trained spotter reported numerous trees down southwest of White Pigeon.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon-Large trees were reported down, with some blocking roads.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon-Gusty thunderstorms winds blew several trees.
January 2013HailWhite Pigeon-no account filed
July 2011HailWhite Pigeon-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon-no account filed
March 2007HailWhite Pigeon-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWhite Pigeon-no account filed
May 1996HailWhite Pigeon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Joseph 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
Constantine3.3 miles14
Breezy Beach4.5 miles15
Oakwood4.8 miles15
Bluff Beach5.7 miles15
Sandy Beach6.0 miles15
Mottville6.0 miles17
Klingers6.2 miles15
Golden Pond Estates8.0 miles15

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 White PigeonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2028499The 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 1625017. 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.