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Bolles Harbor, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48161. It stands on Pike Swale. The Survey maps it on the Erie quadrangle.

Bolles Harbor within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

15 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Bolles Harbor between 2013 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined8
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONROE DIVISION OF PUBLIC SAFETY 0002859 - 2019
22 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLUNA PIER FD 129 - 2020
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONROE TOWNSHIP VFD 1324 - 2019
10 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLUNA PIER FD 121 - 2020
30 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONROE TOWNSHIP VFD 1179 - 2018
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLASALLE TOWNSHIP VFD 0000267 - 2019
11 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONROE DIVISION OF PUBLIC SAFETY 0002079 - 2019
14 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONROE TOWNSHIP VFD 923 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Bolles Harbor: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Scotfield Tile Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Monroe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Turtle Lake PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bolles Harbor in 1 storm report in 2004: 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 2004Thunderstorm WindBolles Harbor-A 14 inch diameter tree and large tree limbs were reported blown down.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Avalon Beach0.8 miles18
Grand View2.0 miles18
North Shores2.4 miles18
South Monroe2.6 miles17
Monroe3.4 miles17
La Salle3.5 miles18
Evergreen Acres3.6 miles17
West Monroe4.0 miles17

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 Q122553354The 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 621693. 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.