French Town, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Pentwater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49449. It stands on Pentwater River. The Survey maps it on the Pentwater quadrangle.

French Town within Oceana County

On record in French Town

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Navigation Structures at Pentwater Harborlisted 2001 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1932 USGS Ludington SW quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1983 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Pentwater quadrangle1:25000

Fires near this place

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of French Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 July 1996	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OCEANA 10
9 June 2012	Recreation and ceremony	2.4 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OCEANA 07
23 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PENTWATER FD 0000031 - 2019
23 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 64 - 2018
16 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 74 - 2020
13 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oceana 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 French Town: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Pentwater E.Lowlands Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oceana 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pentwater	0.8 miles	10
Weare	5.4 miles	12
Mears	6.2 miles	11
Hart	6.3 miles	12
Crystal Valley	10.6 miles	11
Little Point Sable	10.8 miles	6
Shelby	11.8 miles	11
Elbridge	13.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1619971. 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.