Hawkhead, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Casco Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49090. It stands on Black River Drain. The Survey maps it on the Lacota quadrangle.

Hawkhead within Allegan 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.

1927 USGS Bangor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1931 USGS Bangor quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Bangor quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Lacota quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

2,423 words on this township

A Twentieth Century History of Allegan County, Michigan, published 1907 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Casco Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Casco Township - 2,423 words.

Fires near this place

20 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Hawkhead between 2018 and 2020, burning about 26 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 use	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	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
8 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0001340 - 2019
14 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000182 - 2019
14 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000135 - 2018
5 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000668 - 2018
3 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000059 - 2019
28 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000609 - 2018
22 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000068 - 2019
22 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALLEGAN 05

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan 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
Leisure	2.1 miles	11
Glenn Haven Shores	2.3 miles	11
Mount Pleasant	2.3 miles	11
Miami Park	2.3 miles	11
Hollywood	2.3 miles	11
Cedar Bluff	2.3 miles	11
Glenn Stores	2.5 miles	11
South Haven Highlands	2.9 miles	11

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 Q122550426

The 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 1617613. 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.