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Grant Center, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49307. The Survey maps it on the Hersey quadrangle.

Grant Center within Mecosta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Grant Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
26 August 2004Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBIG RAPIDS TOWNSHIP FD 161 - 2020
16 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMECOSTA 06
3 June 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMECOSTA 05 - BEE HIVE
6 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMECOSTA 04 - STONE CREEK
22 May 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMECOSTA 03

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mecosta County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Grant Center: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Potassium. 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
Hershey Potash MinePotassiumProducer
Cousineau Gravel, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mecosta County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Paris Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mecosta 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
Pogy3.6 miles13
Paris5.3 miles12
Chippewa Lake5.9 miles14
Big Rapids6.6 miles15
Rodney7.8 miles14
Stanwood13.5 miles14
Barryton13.6 miles12
Mecosta14.0 miles12

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 Q122559711The 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 1617595. 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.