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Edgerton, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Algoma Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49341. It lies near Porter Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Springs quadrangle.

Edgerton within Kent County

On record in Edgerton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

38 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Edgerton between 2003 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 5 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 use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural5
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
17 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALGOMA TOWNSHIP FD 551 - 2020
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPENCER TOWNSHIP FD 0000317 - 2019
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALGOMA TOWNSHIP FD 8080501 - 2018
26 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALGOMA TOWNSHIP FD 488 - 2020
25 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALGOMA TOWNSHIP FD 485 - 2020
21 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALGOMA TOWNSHIP FD 471 - 2020
1 August 2020Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALGOMA TOWNSHIP FD 435 - 2020
8 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALGOMA TOWNSHIP FD 377 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent 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 Edgerton: 2 producers. 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
Petersen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pickett and Schreur Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgerton in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2021Thunderstorm WindEdgerton$25,000Wind damage was reported across portions of Kent county.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEdgerton$10,000Several trees were blown down near 18 Mile and Wabasis roads. There were 19 reports countywide of downed power lines.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindEdgerton$5,000Several trees were blown down by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
May 1998HailEdgerton-Local broadcast media relayed reports of 1-inch diameter hail near Rockford in northern Kent County.

Every storm recorded in Kent 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
Rockford2.8 miles16
Childsdale3.9 miles16
Cedar Springs4.4 miles15
Sheffield4.6 miles11
Belmont6.3 miles16
Evans6.3 miles11
Solon Center6.5 miles15
Englishville7.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 625359. 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.