BlockGanges, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Ganges Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49408. It stands on Pier Cove Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glenn quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1928 USGS Fennville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1931 USGS Fennville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Glenn quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Holland quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Ganges between 2008 and 2019, burning about 61 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALLEGAN 02 |
| 14 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000135 - 2018 |
| 13 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000094 - 2019 |
| 13 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000093 - 2019 |
| 1 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000492 - 2019 |
| 26 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLYDE TOWNSHIP FD 0000023 - 2019 |
| 26 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HAMILTON FD 1900098 - 2019 |
| 25 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000058 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ganges in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2010: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2001 | Hail | Ganges | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ganges | - | An Allegan county emergency manager reported that power lines were blown down in Ganges. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ganges | - | Allegan county emergency management reported that several trees were blown down from five miles southwest of Fennville off to the southeast to Pullman. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ganges | - | Allegan County Central Dispatch relayed a report from Ganges Township Fire Department of an 80-mph wind gust measured at the fire station on Lakeshore Drive in Ganges. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pier Cove | 1.0 miles | 14 | |
| Grange Corners | 1.0 miles | 14 | |
| Glenn | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Douglas | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Macks Landing | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Beachmont | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Shorewood | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| Shorecrest | 5.2 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 626622. 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.