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Ashland Center, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ashland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49327. The Survey maps it on the Grant quadrangle.

Ashland Center within Newaygo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

45 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Ashland Center between 2001 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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 use29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
14 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLAND-GRANT FIRE DISTRICT 237 - 2018
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLAND-GRANT FIRE DISTRICT 192 - 2018
4 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLAND-GRANT FIRE DISTRICT 247 - 2020
31 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLAND-GRANT FIRE DISTRICT 266 - 2019
3 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLAND-GRANT FIRE DISTRICT 246 - 2020
17 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWAYGO FIRE DISTRICT 290 - 2020
10 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLAND-GRANT FIRE DISTRICT 188 - 2018
30 June 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLAND-GRANT FIRE DISTRICT 173 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newaygo County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ashland Center: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Grant Tile Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Cousineau Gravel, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yerington Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newaygo County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashland Center in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindAshland Center$150,000A 911 call center reported that numerous trees and power lines were blown down across the county.

Every storm recorded in Newaygo 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
Grant2.2 miles12
Ashland2.9 miles12
Bridgeton4.6 miles12
Newaygo6.4 miles12
Bishop6.6 miles12
Sun6.9 miles12
McLean6.9 miles12
Brookside9.1 miles12

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 Q122564327The 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 1617424. 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.