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Gingellville, Michigan

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Orion Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48359. It lies near Mount Judah. The Survey maps it on the Pontiac North quadrangle.

Gingellville within Oakland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Gingellville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 2 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 use6
Natural2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
26 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP FD 0002228 - 2019
4 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUBURN HILLS FD 0001651 - 2020
3 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0006862 - 2019
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP FD 0001929 - 2019
26 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesORION TOWNSHIP FD 1555 - 2018
13 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007257 - 2019
12 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUBURN HILLS FD 0001629 - 2019
6 May 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP FD 0001115 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Gingellville: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 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
Ajax Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bald Mt Plant No. 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Webers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Webers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Webers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oakland 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
Lake Angelus1.7 miles21
Clintonville3.4 miles21
Walters3.4 miles14
Lake Orion Heights4.1 miles14
Drayton Plains4.5 miles21
Auburn Hills4.6 miles21
Waterford5.2 miles21
Lake Orion5.6 miles13

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 Q122569279The 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 626847. 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.