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Glendale, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Waverly Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49079. The Survey maps it on the Gobles West quadrangle.

Glendale within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

12 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Glendale between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 325 - 2020
2 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAW PAW VFD 0000153 - 2018
9 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 272 - 2018
6 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 179 - 2020
5 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000678 - 2019
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGOBLES-PINE GROVE FD 0000046 - 2019
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLOOMINGDALE TOWNSHIP FD 0000046 - 2018
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGOBLES-PINE GROVE FD 0000037 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glendale in 1 storm report in 1996: 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
August 1996Thunderstorm WindGlendale$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Bloomingdale5.5 miles13
Gobles5.7 miles13
Pine Grove6.1 miles14
Berlamont6.3 miles13
Teapot Dome6.4 miles12
Wildeys6.6 miles12
Paw Paw6.8 miles12
Breedsville6.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 626878. 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.