Almena, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Almena Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49079. The Survey maps it on the Gobles East quadrangle.

Almena within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1946 USGS Gobles quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Gobles quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1949 USGS Gobles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Gobles East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Kalamazoo quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

36 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Almena between 2004 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PAW PAW VFD 0000142 - 2019
6 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MATTAWAN FD 096 - 2020
2 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PAW PAW VFD 0000153 - 2018
19 August 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VANBUREN 02 - 38TH ST
19 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VAN BUREN 01 - 28TH ST
9 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PAW PAW VFD 0000099 - 2018
8 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PAW PAW VFD 0000095 - 2018
6 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MATTAWAN FD 43 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mattawan	4.4 miles	12
North Lake	4.7 miles	14
Paw Paw	4.8 miles	12
Pine Grove	6.5 miles	14
Kendall	6.7 miles	14
Lawton	6.8 miles	12
Mentha	6.9 miles	14
Gobles	7.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 620008. 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.