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Lamont, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Tallmadge Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49404. It stands on Little Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coopersville quadrangle. 1,094 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Lamont within Ottawa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Lamont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
2 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor9.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-TALLMADGE FD 191496 - 2019
19 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-TALLMADGE FD 0000528 - 2018
21 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLENDALE TOWNSHIP FD 201271 - 2020
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGEORGETOWN FD 0000412 - 2018
18 July 1992Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGEORGETOWN FD 0000442 - 2019
27 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-TALLMADGE FD 191117 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lamont: 6 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
C&L Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Valley GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Valley Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Winans PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lamont in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
April 2023Thunderstorm WindLamont$10,000Several trees were blown down in the area in and near Maplewood cemetery.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLamont$1,000Law enforcement in Allendale reported that one tree was blown down across a road.
April 2016HailLamont-One to one and a quarter inch diameter hail was reported by the public.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLamont-A trained spotter reported estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.

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
Pearline2.7 miles10
Eastmanville2.7 miles13
Grand Valley3.0 miles11
Allendale3.6 miles10
Tallmadge4.0 miles11
Coopersville4.1 miles13
Marne4.6 miles14
Herrington5.5 miles14

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 Q110940071The 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 630108. 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.