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Grosse Ile, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Grosse Ile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48138. It lies near Stony Island. The Survey maps it on the Wyandotte quadrangle. It stands 597 feet above sea level.

Grosse Ile within Wayne County

On record in Grosse Ile

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 6 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

10 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Grosse Ile between 2018 and 2020, burning about 9 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 use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000143 - 2019
6 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000140 - 2019
28 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHGATE FD 0002537 - 2018
13 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000121 - 2018
30 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRIVERVIEW FD 201275 - 2020
14 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFLAT ROCK FD 0000710 - 2018
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000072 - 2018
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000071 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 Grosse Ile: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Iron, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mclouth Steel Trenton Rolling MillIronProducer
Sibley Quarry Rockwood QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Sibley Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wyandotte Cement Plt.StoneProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne 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
Trenton1.9 miles19
Sibley3.3 miles19
Gibraltar3.4 miles18
Riverview3.6 miles19
Cherry Island4.3 miles18
Woodhaven5.2 miles19
Maple Beach5.7 miles18
Wyandotte5.9 miles19

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 Q33440203The 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 1618870. 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.