Harlem, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Olive Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49424. The Survey maps it on the Holland East quadrangle.

Harlem within Ottawa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1929 USGS Holland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1932 USGS Holland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Holland East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Holland quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Harlem between 1992 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 were 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
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	2

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
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 1996	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 August 2012	Debris and open burning	8.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTTAWA 02
22 August 2003	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 19543 - 2019
2 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTTAWA #002
14 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OLIVE TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 19180 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa 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
Crisp	2.0 miles	11
New Holland	2.1 miles	11
Pine Creek	3.2 miles	10
Olive Center	3.5 miles	11
Noordeloos	3.6 miles	11
West Olive	3.9 miles	11
Oaklawn Beechwood	4.5 miles	11
Waverly	4.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 627800. 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.