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Grape, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Raisinville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48162. It stands on Barnaby Drain. The Survey maps it on the Ida quadrangle.

Grape within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

21 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Grape between 2018 and 2020, burning about 105 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 use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8

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
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 237 - 2020
26 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 444 - 2020
21 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 258 - 2020
15 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 251 - 2020
9 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 219 - 2019
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000331 - 2018
7 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 153 - 2020
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLONDON-MAYBEE-RAISINVILLE FD 0000092 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Grape: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Maybee Brick and Tile Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Schesberger Sandstone ExposureSilicaPast Producer
Grape QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ida Quarry- Plant & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Maybee QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grape in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2014Thunderstorm WindGrape-Large tree limbs reported down.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindGrape-A tree fell onto the road at Dixon and Ida-Maybee Roads.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Maybee3.1 miles17
Strasburg3.9 miles18
Ida4.1 miles18
Scofield5.0 miles17
London5.5 miles17
Diann5.6 miles16
Exeter (historical)6.1 miles17
Dundee6.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 627162. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.