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Green Oak, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Green Oak Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48116. It stands on Woodruff Creek. The Survey maps it on the South Lyon quadrangle.

Green Oak within Livingston County

On record in Green Oak

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Green Oak between 1994 and 2019, burning about 63 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
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
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000485 - 2019
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRIGHTON AREA FD 0001078 - 2018
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000863 - 2018
28 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000968 - 2018
17 July 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000915 - 2018
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000897 - 2018
29 June 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000775 - 2019
9 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLYON TOWNSHIP FD 0000510 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Green Oak: 14 producers. All of them still produce. 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
American Aggregates Corp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Green Oak Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Green Oaks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Holloway Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kensington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kent Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Milford PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Muir Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant No 30Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green Oak in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
October 2001LightningGreen Oak1 hurtA 42 year old man was struck by lightning while standing near his front door. The man sustained only minor injuries.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindGreen Oak-Trees and power lines reported down in Green Oak Township.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindGreen Oak-Trees reported blown down across Green Oak Township.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGreen Oak-Multiple trees reported down in Green Oak Township as well as in Hamburg.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGreen Oak-Multiple trees and tree limbs reported down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGreen Oak-A 10 inch diameter tree limb was blown down over the road.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindGreen Oak-A trained spotter reported tree limbs down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindGreen Oak-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Rushton2.8 miles19
Whitmore Lake4.4 miles19
Brighton5.0 miles13
Hamburg6.3 miles19
Parishfield7.0 miles19
Lakeland8.0 miles19
Chilson9.0 miles13
Pettysville9.2 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 627318. 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.