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Midland Park, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49012. The Survey maps it on the Delton quadrangle.

Midland Park within Kalamazoo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Midland Park between 2018 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
18 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 278 - 2020
12 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 237 - 2020
9 June 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 183 - 2020
6 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 178 - 2020
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUGUSTA-ROSS TWP FD 0000073 - 2019
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHICKORY CORNERS FD 0000048 - 2019
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHICKORY CORNERS FD 0000069 - 2018
22 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUGUSTA-ROSS TWP FD 0000085 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo 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 Midland Park: 2 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
Barry Co Pit Bill Smith S & GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stoney Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kalamazoo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midland Park in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2007: 2 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
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMidland Park$40,000A three foot diameter tree was blown down two miles north of Midland Park. Numerous reports of downed trees were received from across the county.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindMidland Park$5,000Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph blew down several trees.

Every storm 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
South Gull Lake0.6 miles19
Yorkville1.4 miles19
Gull Lake1.4 miles21
Highland Park1.8 miles19
Richland3.8 miles19
Howlandsburg4.0 miles21
Augusta4.2 miles22
Richland Junction5.9 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 632286. 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.