BlockCoats Grove, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Castleton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49058. The Survey maps it on the Woodland quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
18 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Coats Grove between 1996 and 2020, burning about 360 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2019 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HASTINGS FD 0000429 - 2019 |
| 15 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WOODLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000090 - 2018 |
| 7 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WOODLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000045 - 2019 |
| 2 May 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 51 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 43 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 7.8 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BARRY 01 |
| 3 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WOODLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000052 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coats Grove in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coats Grove | $50,000 | There were numerous reports of downed trees, limbs and power lines in the Hastings area. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coats Grove | $15,000 | Barry county central dispatch reported that severe thunderstorm wind gusts damaged a house and barn near Coats Grove and Woodland. |
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.
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 Q122570517 | The 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 623516. 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.