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Highland Park, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49083. The Survey maps it on the Delton quadrangle.

Highland Park within Kalamazoo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Highland Park between 2018 and 2020, burning about 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning2
Natural2

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
12 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 324 - 2019
18 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 278 - 2020
11 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 231 - 2020
9 June 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 183 - 2020
6 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 178 - 2020
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUGUSTA-ROSS TWP FD 0000073 - 2019
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHICKORY CORNERS FD 0000048 - 2019
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHICKORY CORNERS FD 0000069 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Highland Park: 2 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
Barry Co Pit Bill Smith S & GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stoney Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kalamazoo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland Park in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHighland Park$15,000Several trees were blown down across portions of northeastern Kalamazoo county.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindHighland Park$10,000Multiple trees were blown down along the east shoreline of Gull Lake near Richland.

Every storm recorded in Kalamazoo 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
South Gull Lake1.4 miles19
Yorkville1.7 miles19
Midland Park1.8 miles19
Richland2.3 miles19
Gull Lake2.5 miles21
Richland Junction4.1 miles19
Howlandsburg4.3 miles21
Augusta5.4 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 628250. 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.

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.