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Castle Park, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Laketown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49423. It lies near Baldy. The Survey maps it on the Saugatuck quadrangle.

Castle Park within Allegan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

16 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Castle Park between 2007 and 2020, burning about 31 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/undetermined7
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
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
8 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAAFSCHAP FD 2018470 - 2018
16 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAAFSCHAP FD 2019424 - 2019
7 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN #8
11 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPARK TOWNSHIP FD 0000090 - 2018
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND FD 0001314 - 2018
3 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAAFSCHAP FD 2019155 - 2019
28 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 02
1 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND FD 191464 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Castle Park: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Laketown SiteSilicaProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Allegan County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castle Park in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2008: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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 2008Flash FloodCastle Park2 killed, $2,000,000At 3 a.m. EST June 8th, two people drowned when they were delivering newspapers and their car plunged into a fifty foot ravine created by a washed out road. A presidential disaster declaration was issued for Allegan county due to extensive flash flooding.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindCastle Park$3,000A tree and power line was blown down near 140th avenue and 65th streets.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindCastle Park$1,000One tree was blown down by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
May 1998HailCastle Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allegan 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
Gibson2.8 miles15
Graafschap3.8 miles10
Singapore (historical)4.9 miles15
Oxbow5.5 miles15
Old Saugatuck5.6 miles15
Saugatuck6.4 miles15
Shorewood6.8 miles15
Beachmont7.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 622867. 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.