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Groveland Corners, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Groveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48442. It lies near Devil Island. The Survey maps it on the Davisburg quadrangle.

Groveland Corners within Oakland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Groveland Corners between 2003 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 2 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 use6
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGROVELAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000707 - 2018
4 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH OAKLAND COUNTY FIRE AUTH 534 - 2020
15 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH OAKLAND COUNTY FIRE AUTH 552 - 2019
17 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH OAKLAND COUNTY FIRE AUTH 468 - 2020
1 May 2018Natural4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLY FD 0000242 - 2018
26 April 2003Smoking3.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRANDON FD 0000358 - 2019
29 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLY FD 0000223 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Groveland Corners: 8 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
Buffalo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Buffalo Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Buffalo Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Holly Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kurtz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Middleton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
South Flint Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tri-City Aggregates Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oakland 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
Austin Corners2.9 miles17
Five Points3.3 miles17
Davisburg4.4 miles17
Holly4.6 miles14
Newark5.1 miles14
Jossman Acres5.4 miles13
Brandon Gardens5.6 miles13
Springfield6.1 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1625569. 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.