Colfax, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Colfax Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49459. The Survey maps it on the Walkerville East quadrangle.

Colfax within Oceana County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1931 USGS Walkerville NE quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Hesperia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Hersperia NE quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Walkerville East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Colfax between 1994 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 1 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
12 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	BEAVER
16 August 2018	Smoking	1.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	ISLAND LAKE
13 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	TOY
10 August 1998	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	IRON BRIDGE
7 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WALKERVILLE AREA FIRE/RESCUE 2018093 - 2018
10 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OCEANA 20
15 June 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	BURNING BEAVER
7 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 45 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oceana 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Walkerville	3.1 miles	11
Elbridge	8.4 miles	11
Crystal Valley	8.7 miles	11
Hesperia	12.2 miles	11
Ferry	13.4 miles	11
Weare	13.8 miles	12
Saint Huberts	13.9 miles	11
Hart	15.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1619553. 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.