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Adams Park, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Brady Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49097. It stands on Dorrance Creek. The Survey maps it on the Adams Park quadrangle.

Adams Park within Kalamazoo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Adams Park between 2018 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
31 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAVILION TOWNSHIP FD 0000289 - 2019
12 August 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAVILION TOWNSHIP FD 0000273 - 2019
16 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000560 - 2018
1 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAVILION TOWNSHIP FD 0000149 - 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
25 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAVILION TOWNSHIP FD 0000138 - 2018

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 Adams Park: 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

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adams Park in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindAdams Park$1,200,000The areas most impacted by the bowing segment of the line echo wave pattern fell within Brady and Wakeshma Townships along and south of E W Avenue between 33rd and 47th Streets. Hundreds of trees were either uprooted or snapped, with some snapped 15-20 feet above the ground. Additionally, some structures were damaged with this storm. A grain silo on the corner of E W Avenue and S 40th Street collapsed, and nearly a dozen farm buildings sustained significant roof damage. The damage path was approximately 8 miles long and 3 miles wide.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAdams Park$10,000Several large tree limbs were blown down across portions of southern Kalamazoo county by wind gusts estimated at up to 60 mph.

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 Park1.4 miles14
Pavilion1.5 miles14
Pomeroy2.8 miles14
Pavillion Center3.3 miles14
Collins Corner3.8 miles14
Vicksburg3.9 miles15
Scotts4.3 miles14
Ramona Park4.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 619826. 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.