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Lawndale, Michigan

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Comstock Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49053. It lies near Rowe Island. The Survey maps it on the Galesburg quadrangle.

Lawndale within Kalamazoo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

34 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Lawndale between 2018 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural6
Debris and open burning1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0001533 - 2019
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALAMAZOO DPS 0078926 - 2018
12 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 324 - 2019
31 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0001522 - 2019
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0001497 - 2019
26 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 260 - 2020
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALAMAZOO DPS 0006279 - 2019
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0000840 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo 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 Lawndale: 4 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
Balkema Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cole Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Consumers Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
East Comstock1.5 miles21
Galesburg2.3 miles21
Comstock2.7 miles20
Lakewood4.2 miles20
Howlandsburg4.6 miles21
Eastwood4.8 miles20
Cooks Mill5.0 miles14
Collins Corner5.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617674. 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.