Gresham, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48813. It stands on Little Thornapple River. The Survey maps it on the Hoytville quadrangle.

Gresham within Eaton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1949 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Hoytville quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Lansing quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Gresham between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	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
30 April 2018	Natural	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	POTTERVILLE-BENTON TWP FD 0000064 - 2018
2 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLOTTE FD 0000195 - 2019
27 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLOTTE FD 0000185 - 2019
15 March 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLOTTE FD 0000120 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eaton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gresham in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2020	Flood	Gresham	$100,000	There were numerous road closures due to flooding.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Gresham	$1,000	One tree was blown down by an estimated wind gust of near 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Eaton 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
Stalls Corner	0.0 miles	10
Chester	2.7 miles	11
Needmore	3.6 miles	10
Little Venice	4.7 miles	10
Shaytown	6.1 miles	10
Charlotte	6.2 miles	10
Hoytville	6.9 miles	10
Vermontville	6.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 627414. 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.

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.