Grande Pointe, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48028. It lies near Russell Island. The Survey maps it on the Algonac quadrangle.

Grande Pointe within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1914 USGS Algonac quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Algonac quadrangle1:31680
1939 USGS Algonac quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Algonac quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Algonac quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Lake St. Clair North quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Grande Pointe between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 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/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	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
2 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 468 - 2018
11 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 399 - 2019
6 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 277 - 2019
25 April 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 347 - 2019
11 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 296 - 2019
9 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALGONAC FD 0000762 - 2020
1 October 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 1031 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair 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
Pointe aux Chenes	0.8 miles	13
Algonac	1.5 miles	13
Sans Souci	1.7 miles	13
Maple Leaf	2.0 miles	13
Pointe aux Tremble	2.0 miles	13
Pearl Beach	3.4 miles	13
Muirs	3.7 miles	13
Roberts Landing	4.4 miles	13

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 Q122563404

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 1624574. 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.