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East Saugatuck, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Manlius Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49419. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton West quadrangle.

East Saugatuck within Allegan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of East Saugatuck between 1992 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAAFSCHAP FD 2018470 - 2018
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN #8
7 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAMILTON FD 0000149 - 2018
21 May 1995Arson/incendiarism5.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 1992Recreation and ceremony12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 May 1995Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan 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 East Saugatuck: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, 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
Hamilton Washing PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Laketown SiteSilicaProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Allegan County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Saugatuck in 1 storm report in 1998: 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
April 1998HailEast Saugatuck-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allegan 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
New Richmond2.4 miles15
Fillmore3.9 miles15
Hamilton4.6 miles15
Macks Landing4.8 miles15
Gibson5.3 miles15
Overisel5.5 miles15
Graafschap5.5 miles10
Oxbow5.9 miles15

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 Q122550362The 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 625252. 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.