Macks Landing, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Saugatuck Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49408. It stands on Peach Orchard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saugatuck quadrangle.

Macks Landing within Allegan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1928 USGS Fennville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1931 USGS Fennville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Saugatuck quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Holland quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Macks Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 2 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 use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HAMILTON FD 0000149 - 2018
16 May 1992	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP FD 2018256 - 2018
13 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000094 - 2019
13 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000093 - 2019
11 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FENNVILLE AREA FD 0000132 - 2019
8 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FENNVILLE AREA FD 0000066 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Douglas	2.6 miles	15
New Richmond	2.8 miles	15
Saugatuck	3.0 miles	15
Oxbow	3.6 miles	15
Beachmont	3.8 miles	15
Fennville	3.8 miles	14
Shorewood	3.8 miles	15
Old Saugatuck	3.9 miles	15

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 Q122555506

The 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 1617693. 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.