Grand Junction, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49056. The Survey maps it on the Pullman quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Grand Junction within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1927 USGS Bangor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1931 USGS Bangor quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Bangor quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Grand Junction between 1993 and 2020, burning about 79 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Debris and open burning	6
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
24 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BANGOR COMMUNITY FD 185 - 2020
7 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BANGOR COMMUNITY FD 169 - 2018
6 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000055 - 2018
5 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000026 - 2018
3 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 May 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000081 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lacota	3.1 miles	11
Breedsville	4.0 miles	11
Berlamont	4.3 miles	13
Bloomingdale	6.3 miles	13
Bangor	6.7 miles	11
Jericho Corners	8.1 miles	11
Sulphur Springs	8.6 miles	11
West Bangor	9.0 miles	11

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 Q136346979

The 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 627088. 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.