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Level Park, Michigan

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Bedford Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49037. The Survey maps it on the Augusta quadrangle.

Level Park within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

49 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Level Park between 2004 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 2 were 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 use23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural8
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
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
13 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05179 - 2018
25 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD TOWNSHIP FD 00250 - 2019
18 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 278 - 2020
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 03805 - 2018
5 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPENNFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 00600 - 2019
2 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 03882 - 2019
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 04000 - 2018
11 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 04077 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun 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 Level Park: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 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
Dickman Road Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dickman Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hoffman Brothers Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stoney Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Level Park in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLevel Park$150,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across the county.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Oak Park0.8 miles22
Urbandale1.6 miles18
Springfield2.9 miles18
Bedford3.2 miles19
Springfield Place4.6 miles18
Orchard Park4.8 miles18
Morgan Corners4.8 miles18
Lakeview5.4 miles18

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 Q122590035The 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 630338. 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.