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Conklin, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49403. The Survey maps it on the Ravenna quadrangle. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Conklin within Ottawa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Conklin between 1992 and 2019, burning about 44 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
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
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
5 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRAVENNA AREA FD 0000140 - 2018
19 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-TALLMADGE FD 0000528 - 2018
16 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRAVENNA AREA FD 0000139 - 2019
6 May 2018Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000051 - 2018
31 May 1992Debris and open burning5.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRAVENNA AREA FD 0000083 - 2019
22 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000035 - 2018
19 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-TALLMADGE FD 0000189 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa 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 Conklin: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ottawa County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conklin in 2 storm reports between 2018 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Thunderstorm WindConklin$10,000Doors were blown out of a couple of barns and power outages were reported.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindConklin$10,000The public reported that multiple trees were blown down near Conklin.

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Wright4.1 miles14
Reno4.4 miles14
Harrisburg4.4 miles13
Coopersville5.3 miles13
Herrington5.5 miles14
Dennison6.8 miles13
Marne7.0 miles14
Lamont8.4 miles13

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 Q136348652The 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 623697. 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.