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Jamestown, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jamestown Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49426. The Survey maps it on the Hudsonville East quadrangle. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Jamestown within Ottawa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Jamestown between 2018 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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
20 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUDSONVILLE FD 19358 - 2019
15 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBYRON TOWNSHIP FD 550 - 2020
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBYRON TOWNSHIP FD 311 - 2019
6 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 19182 - 2019
3 April 2020Natural4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBYRON TOWNSHIP FD 306 - 2020
28 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGEORGETOWN FD 0000244 - 2018
25 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUDSONVILLE FD 19224 - 2019
8 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGEORGETOWN FD 0000117 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Jamestown: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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
De Went Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J V Burkett Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottowa County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jamestown in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 1998LightningJamestown1 hurtThe Muskegon Chronicle reported Collin Zackrison, a 34 year-old male, was critically injured when he was struck by lightning at Spring Grove Park near Jamestown, in southeastern Ottawa County. The Ottawa County Parks and Recreation Department employee suffered severe leg and chest injuries.
May 2000HailJamestown$40,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindJamestown$25,000Law enforcement reported several trees were blown down across portions of Ottawa county.
May 2003HailJamestown$15,000Seven eights inch diameter hail was reported with a thunderstorm in Jamestown.
June 2001HailJamestown$10,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindJamestown$5,000Numerous 5 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down across Jamestown.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindJamestown-Over a dozen trees were knocked down or uprooted. Power outages across the county.
April 2011HailJamestown-A trained spotter just northeast of Jamestown reported that hail sizes ranged from a half an inch to three quarters of an inch in diameter.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindJamestown-Several trees were blown down.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindJamestown-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Zutphen2.1 miles9
Forest Grove2.2 miles9
Forest Grove Station2.3 miles9
Gitchel3.0 miles9
Hudsonville3.3 miles9
Vriesland5.3 miles9
South Blendon5.8 miles10
Drenthe6.0 miles9

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 Q136348656The 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 629206. 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.