Maple Grove, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Maple Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49073. The Survey maps it on the Maple Grove quadrangle.

Maple Grove within Barry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1950 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Maple Grove quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Maple Grove between 2002 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. None 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 use	9
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
12 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2005	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CASTLETON-MAPLEGROVE-NASHVILLE FD 0000073 - 2018
22 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CASTLETON-MAPLEGROVE-NASHVILLE FD 0000068 - 2018
26 March 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BELLEVUE FD 0020-94 - 2020
25 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CASTLETON-MAPLEGROVE-NASHVILLE FD 0000028 - 2019
23 March 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Maple Grove: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Darrell Hamilton Marl Operation	Limestone, General	Past Producer
	Nashville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Barry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maple Grove in 1 storm report in 2000: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Maple Grove	$25,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barry 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
Nashville	4.0 miles	10
Lacey	5.2 miles	19
Morgan	5.5 miles	10
Assyria	6.1 miles	19
Quimby	6.6 miles	10
Dowling	6.9 miles	12
Vickery Landing	8.3 miles	12
Coats Grove	9.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2109222. 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.