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Fountain Park, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49266. The Survey maps it on the Frontier quadrangle.

Fountain Park within Hillsdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Fountain Park between 1996 and 2020, burning about 16 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODBRIDGE TWP FIRE/RESCUE F202027 - 2020
18 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUDSON FD 0000091 - 2018
30 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 20028 - 2020
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 19021 - 2019
6 April 2019Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-WALDRON FIRE & AMBULANCE 0000127 - 2019
5 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 19027 - 2019
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 18036 - 2018
24 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 19023 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsdale County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fountain Park in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 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 2012Thunderstorm WindFountain Park-Emergency management officials reported power lines were down near Bird Lake.

Every storm recorded in Hillsdale 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
Shadyside0.7 miles10
Pittsford3.5 miles9
Osseo3.8 miles11
Ransom3.9 miles10
Lickly Corners4.5 miles9
Frontier5.3 miles10
Steamburg5.4 miles11
Betzer6.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 626327. 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.

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.