Millgrove, Michigan

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.

• 1958 USGS Allegan 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 Millgrove quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:100000

History of Allegan and Barry Counties Michigan 1880, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Millgrove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 274 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Diamond Springs
• Monterey Center
• South Monterey
• Chicora
• Dunningville
• Allegan

Every fire recorded in Allegan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Millgrove: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Allegan County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 632408. 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.