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Grand Valley, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Tallmadge Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49435. It stands on Ottawa Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grandville quadrangle.

Grand Valley within Ottawa 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.

Fires near this place

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Grand Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
5 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor9.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-TALLMADGE FD 191496 - 2019
13 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGEORGETOWN FD 0000465 - 2018
21 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLENDALE TOWNSHIP FD 201271 - 2020
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGEORGETOWN FD 0000412 - 2018
16 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGEORGETOWN FD 0000442 - 2019
9 June 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWALKER CITY FD 238 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Grand Valley: 12 producers. All of them 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
C&L Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cheyne Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Valley GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Valley Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Huizenga Gravel Co., Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Riverview PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Standard Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
West Shore Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ottawa 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
Tallmadge2.3 miles11
Pearline2.9 miles10
Lamont3.0 miles13
Bauer4.0 miles10
Allendale4.4 miles10
Marne4.8 miles14
Eastmanville5.4 miles13
North Blendon5.8 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 627116. 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.