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Agnew, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Grand Haven Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49460. The Survey maps it on the Port Sheldon quadrangle.

Agnew within Ottawa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Agnew between 1992 and 2019, burning about 62 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were 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
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORT SHELDON FD 0000172 - 2018
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND HAVEN TWP FIRE/RESCUE 19900 - 2019
22 August 2003Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2003Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2017Recreation and ceremony3.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTTAWA 01

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa 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 Agnew: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Construction Aggregates Corp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rosy MoundSilicaProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agnew in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 1 hail, 1 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindAgnew$10,000A mesonet weather station reported a peak wind gust of 56 knots.
April 2014HailAgnew-The public reported quarter sized hail on US-31 between M-45 and Stanton.

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
West Olive3.4 miles11
Clark Corners4.3 miles12
Port Sheldon4.7 miles11
Snug Harbor4.8 miles12
Rosy Mound5.1 miles12
Robinson5.1 miles11
Olive Center6.1 miles11
Grand Haven7.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 619868. 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.