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Forest Grove Station, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jamestown Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49426. The Survey maps it on the Hudsonville West quadrangle.

Forest Grove Station 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 Forest Grove Station between 2018 and 2019, burning about 7 acres in total. None 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUDSONVILLE FD 19358 - 2019
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
6 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 19182 - 2019
28 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGEORGETOWN FD 0000244 - 2018
25 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUDSONVILLE FD 19224 - 2019
25 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 19163 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Forest Grove Station: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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
J V Burkett Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottowa County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Grove Station in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2020: 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
July 2018Thunderstorm WindForest Grove Station$5,000Several power lines were downed near the intersection of 48th avenue and Byron road.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindForest Grove Station-A 66 mph peak wind gust was measured at Felch and 48th streets.

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
Zutphen1.0 miles9
Forest Grove1.5 miles9
Jamestown2.3 miles9
Gitchel2.9 miles9
Vriesland3.1 miles9
Drenthe3.7 miles9
Hudsonville4.2 miles9
Beaverdam4.9 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 Q122589390The 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 626258. 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.