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Forest Hills, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Meridian Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48864. It stands on Sloan Creek. The Survey maps it on the East Lansing quadrangle.

Forest Hills within Ingham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

34 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Forest Hills between 2018 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined32
Natural1
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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903752 - 2019
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903926 - 2019
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903338 - 2019
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903431 - 2019
15 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAST LANSING FD 0003100 - 2018
29 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1803121 - 2018
29 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources18733 - 2018
28 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources18732 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ingham 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 Forest Hills: 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
Jolly Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ingham County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Hills in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 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 2023Thunderstorm WindForest Hills$15,000,000The public reported that many large trees and tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindForest Hills-Several trees were blown down onto Forest Hills Drive.

Every storm recorded in Ingham 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
Okemos1.5 miles13
Haslett2.5 miles13
Meridian2.6 miles11
East Lansing4.6 miles13
Williamston6.6 miles11
Pollok7.5 miles13
Willow Village Home Court7.6 miles11
Holt7.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 626267. 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.