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Englishville, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Alpine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49345. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Springs SW quadrangle.

Englishville within Kent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

45 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Englishville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 4 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 use27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural4
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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 729 - 2020
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 648 - 2020
23 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 689 - 2020
4 July 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPARTA FD 444 - 2020
29 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPARTA FD 520 - 2019
28 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPARTA FD 490 - 2020
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPINE TOWNSHIP FD 0000585 - 2018
14 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALGOMA TOWNSHIP FD 442 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Englishville: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Clay Manufacturing Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Butterworth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Coit Avenue Gravel & Aggregate PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Contractors Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Norman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Englishville in 2 storm reports between 2000 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindEnglishville$100,000Several trees and limbs were blown down and a report of hail up to an inch in diameter was also received.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindEnglishville$50,000no account filed

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
Ballards Corners1.0 miles16
Alpine3.0 miles16
Sparta3.2 miles15
Fruit Ridge Center4.2 miles14
Belmont5.2 miles16
Comstock Park5.5 miles16
Lisbon5.6 miles13
Childsdale5.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 625604. 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.