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Ensley Center, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ensley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49343. The Survey maps it on the Sand Lake quadrangle.

Ensley Center within Newaygo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Ensley Center between 1994 and 2020, burning about 248 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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
9 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLAND-GRANT FIRE DISTRICT 257 - 2020
5 July 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWAYGO 05
26 July 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCROTON TOWNSHIP FD 116 - 2020
22 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLAND-GRANT FIRE DISTRICT 256 - 2019
13 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAND LAKE FD 0000239 - 2019
6 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCREE
5 May 2013Debris and open burning4.7 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestM-82
4 May 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestPINE GROVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newaygo 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 Ensley Center: 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
Cousineau Gravel, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Newaygo County

Storms near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ensley Center in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2008: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2008LightningEnsley Center$100,000A lightning strike resulted in a gas well fire in Ensley Center.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindEnsley Center$10,000no account filed
March 2005Thunderstorm WindEnsley Center$5,000Law enforcement reported two trees blown down.
January 2008HailEnsley Center-Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported by a trained spotter two miles west of Ensley Center.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindEnsley Center-A trained spotter reported that many trees were blown down around the intersection of Peach and 120th avenues by a wind gust estimated at 61 knots.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindEnsley Center-Trained spotters reported that estimated wind gusts to 70 mph blew down many trees around the intersection of Peach and 120th.
August 1993HailEnsley Center-Three-quarter-inch hail was reported south of Ensley Center to the Kent County border.

Every storm recorded in Newaygo 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
Tift Corner4.0 miles12
Sun5.4 miles12
Croton7.3 miles12
Riverview7.8 miles12
Croton Heights8.2 miles12
Grant10.0 miles12
Oxbow10.0 miles12
Ashland10.2 miles12

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 Q122554735The 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 625613. 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.