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Michillinda, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1983. It lies in ZIP code area 49461. It stands on Duck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Michillinda quadrangle.

Michillinda within Muskegon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Michillinda between 1996 and 2019, burning about 87 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 July 2006Smoking1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON TOWNSHIP FD 0001319 - 2019
2 July 2018Debris and open burning8.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON 04
2 May 2015Recreation and ceremony2.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON 03 -
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE LAKE FIRE AUTHORITY 0000315 - 2018
25 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE LAKE FIRE AUTHORITY 0000408 - 2019
24 April 2009Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKEGON 03
22 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE LAKE FIRE AUTHORITY 0000394 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskegon 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 Michillinda: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Titanium, Metal. 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
Whitehall Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Whitehall Plant TiTitanium, MetalPlant1992

Every working recorded in Muskegon County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Michillinda in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2010: 3 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindMichillinda1 hurtA sixteen inch diameter branch fell on a truck and resulted in minor injuries.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindMichillinda$50,000An NWS storm survey revealed only spotty tree damage near Duck Lake state park and Muskegon. A 76 mph wind gust was measured at the Muskegon GLERL field station.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindMichillinda$5,000Several trees were blown down by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Muskegon 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
Wabaningo1.4 miles11
Sylvan Beach1.6 miles11
Maple Grove4.4 miles10
South Whitehall4.8 miles10
Whitehall5.3 miles10
Montague5.5 miles10
Lakewood Club8.2 miles10
Dalton8.3 miles10

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 Q122569384The 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 632217. 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.