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Hollywood, 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. The Survey maps it on the Lacota quadrangle.

Hollywood 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.

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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Hollywood between 2018 and 2020, burning about 21 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 use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5

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
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0001340 - 2019
14 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000182 - 2019
14 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000135 - 2018
28 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000609 - 2018
2 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000500 - 2019
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLYDE TOWNSHIP FD 0000032 - 2019
13 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000557 - 2019
10 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000537 - 2019

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Glenn Haven Shores0.1 miles11
Glenn Stores0.4 miles11
Cedar Bluff0.6 miles11
Glenn Shores0.7 miles14
Shorecrest1.0 miles14
Miami Park2.0 miles11
Glenn2.0 miles14
Hawkhead2.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617624. 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.