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Drenthe, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Zeeland Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49464. The Survey maps it on the Hudsonville West quadrangle.

Drenthe within Ottawa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Drenthe between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 19381 - 2019
15 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOVERISEL FD 2000087 - 2020
9 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALEM TOWNSHIP FD 0000061 - 2018
15 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesZEELAND TOWNSHIP FD 19411 - 2019
8 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesZEELAND TOWNSHIP FD 19356 - 2019
3 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOVERISEL FD 0000027 - 2018
15 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesZEELAND TOWNSHIP FD 19676 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Drenthe: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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 Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pickett and Schreur, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Drenthe in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2025Tornado (EF0)Drenthe-A brief EF-0 tornado with top winds of 75 mph touched down in Zeeland Township and lifted off in Jamestown Township. Multiple farm buildings and trees were damaged along this brief tornado path.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindDrenthe-Wind damage in the form of snapped utility poles was reported.

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
Vriesland2.0 miles9
Forest Grove Station3.7 miles9
Forest Grove4.3 miles9
Zutphen4.3 miles9
Zeeland4.6 miles11
Beaverdam4.6 miles9
Gitchel5.2 miles9
Jamestown6.0 miles9

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 Q18056036The 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 624882. 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.