Apple Carr Village, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Egelston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49442. The Survey maps it on the Sullivan quadrangle.

Apple Carr Village within Muskegon 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.

1930 USGS Muskegon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Muskegon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Muskegon quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Apple Carr Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 474 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Arson/incendiarism	14
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
23 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MUSKEGON FD 0003230 - 2019
11 August 1992	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MUSKEGON 03
8 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EGELSTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000493 - 2018
7 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP FD 0001272 - 2018
6 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP FD 0001313 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskegon 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
Wolf Lake	1.1 miles	10
Updyke	4.0 miles	11
Cloverville	4.2 miles	11
Sullivan	5.5 miles	11
Muskegon	6.6 miles	11
Muskegon Heights	6.8 miles	11
Morland Corner	7.2 miles	13
Moorland	7.3 miles	13

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.

Wikidata item Q122594422

The 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 2571718. 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.