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Lapeer Heights, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Burton City. It lies in ZIP code area 48509. The Survey maps it on the Davison quadrangle.

Lapeer Heights within Genesee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

35 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Lapeer Heights between 2018 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 7 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 use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0016180 - 2019
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURTON CITY FIRE/RESCUE 0000265 - 2019
24 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 437 - 2020
10 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0014253 - 2019
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 18269 - 2018
5 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0011589 - 2019
31 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0013594 - 2019
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURTON CITY FIRE/RESCUE 0000211 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lapeer Heights: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Kurtz Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Genesee 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
Belsay1.2 miles16
Burton1.3 miles13
Davison4.5 miles16
Flint4.9 miles16
Whigville5.3 miles14
Atlas5.8 miles13
Grand Blanc5.9 miles14
Russellville6.1 miles16

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 Q122588666The 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 630149. 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.