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Cloverville, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Fruitport Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49444. The Survey maps it on the Muskegon East quadrangle.

Cloverville 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.

Fires near this place

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Cloverville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use28
Debris and open burning11
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON FD 0003187 - 2019
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON FD 0003117 - 2019
16 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON HEIGHTS FD 0001196 - 2018
12 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON FD 0003230 - 2019
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON 03
9 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON HEIGHTS FD 0001012 - 2018
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON HEIGHTS FD 0001009 - 2018
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON HEIGHTS FD 0001003 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskegon County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cloverville in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCloverville$30,000Numerous large tree limbs were blown down in Cloverville and Norton Shores.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCloverville$10,000Multiple trees and tree limbs were blown down in Cloverville.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindCloverville-Part of a school gym roof blown off.
October 2008HailCloverville-The public in Cloverville reported that an isolated severe thunderstorm produced three quarters inch diameter hail.
April 2001Tornado (F0)Cloverville-Trained spotters reported a very brief tornado touchdown, that did not produce any damage. The tornado was classified as an F0, producing wind speeds in the 40 to 72 m.p.h. range.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Updyke3.1 miles11
Muskegon Heights4.0 miles11
Fruitport4.1 miles11
Apple Carr Village4.2 miles11
Wolf Lake5.3 miles10
Muskegon5.3 miles11
Norton Shores5.4 miles11
Roosevelt Park5.7 miles11

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 Q122544558The 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 623500. 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.

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.