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Grand View Acres, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Northville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48167. It stands on Johnson Drain. The Survey maps it on the Northville quadrangle.

Grand View Acres within Wayne County

On record in Grand View Acres

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

33 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Grand View Acres between 2010 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1

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
11 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFARMINGTON HILLS FD 0007167 - 2019
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNOVI FD 0004815 - 2019
30 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPLYMOUTH COMMUNITY FD 0002021 - 2019
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0007106 - 2019
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0006927 - 2019
19 July 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0006169 - 2019
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTHVILLE FD 0021362 - 2018
13 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNOVI FD 0004244 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Grand View Acres: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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
Hayes Washed S & G, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thomson Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne 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
Northville2.0 miles20
Plymouth4.0 miles20
Stark5.2 miles20
Livonia6.4 miles20
Elm7.0 miles20
Westland7.5 miles20
Norton7.8 miles20
Canton8.3 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 627119. 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.