Grange Corners, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Ganges Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49408. The Survey maps it on the Glenn quadrangle.

Grange Corners within Allegan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1928 USGS Fennville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1931 USGS Fennville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Glenn quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Holland quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Grange Corners between 2008 and 2019, burning about 60 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
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
14 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALLEGAN 02
14 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000135 - 2018
13 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000094 - 2019
13 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000093 - 2019
26 March 2019	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLYDE TOWNSHIP FD 0000023 - 2019
26 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HAMILTON FD 1900098 - 2019
25 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000058 - 2018
25 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP FD 2018160 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan 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
Ganges	1.0 miles	14
Pier Cove	2.0 miles	14
Macks Landing	4.2 miles	15
Glenn	4.4 miles	14
Douglas	4.6 miles	15
Fennville	4.8 miles	14
Beachmont	5.1 miles	15
Spring Grove	5.1 miles	14

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 Q122553719

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 627132. 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.