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Bauer, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Georgetown Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49426. The Survey maps it on the Allendale quadrangle.

Bauer within Ottawa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Bauer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-TALLMADGE FD 191496 - 2019
31 August 2019Natural3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLENDON TOWNSHIP FD 19300 - 2019
13 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGEORGETOWN FD 0000465 - 2018
21 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLENDALE TOWNSHIP FD 201271 - 2020
20 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUDSONVILLE FD 19358 - 2019
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGEORGETOWN FD 0000412 - 2018
18 July 1992Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGEORGETOWN FD 0000442 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Bauer: 13 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
C&L Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cheyne Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
De Went Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Valley GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Valley Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Huizenga Gravel Co., Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Riverview PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Standard Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

3 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bauer in 3 storm reports in 2026: 2 hail, 1 flood. 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
March 2026FloodBauer-Water over the road near 40th and Baldwin.
March 2026HailBauer-no account filed
March 2026HailBauer-no account filed

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
South Blendon2.7 miles10
North Blendon3.2 miles10
Pearline3.7 miles10
Hudsonville4.0 miles9
Grand Valley4.0 miles11
Allendale4.4 miles10
Beaverdam5.9 miles9
Jenison5.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 620764. 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.