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Moline, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Dorr Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49348. The Survey maps it on the Wayland quadrangle. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Moline within Allegan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Dorr township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Allegan and Barry Counties, Michigan, published 1880 - Dorr Township

Drowned In The Lake

Mention will be made in the history of Saugatuck of a calamity on the Kalamazoo River in 1841 whereby three children of John H. Billings, together with Mrs. Billings, were drowned. Three other children of Mr. Billings, in the boat on that occasion, were saved, but one of them, Ozias by name, seemed born under an adverse star, for he subsequently lost his life in Hutchins' Lake, in Ganges, while crossing on the ice.

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In the county-history sources

94,632 words on this township

History of Allegan and Barry Counties, Michigan, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Dorr Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Dorr has two villages within its borders, named respectively Dorr Centre and Moline. The former is situated in the central part of the township, and is a station on the line of the Kalamazoo division of the Lake- Shore and Michigan Southern Railway.

Passage source: History of Allegan and Barry Counties, Michigan, published 1880.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Dorr Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Moline between 1996 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
21 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEIGHTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000110 - 2019
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBYRON TOWNSHIP FD 878 - 2020
1 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEIGHTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000103 - 2019
13 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDORR TOWNSHIP FD 0000107 - 2018
25 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBYRON TOWNSHIP FD 665 - 2019
8 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDORR TOWNSHIP FD 0000070 - 2020
11 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWAYLAND FD 0000109 - 2018
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBYRON TOWNSHIP FD 371 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moline in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindMoline$25,000Several downed tree limbs and trees and power lines were reported.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindMoline-Straight line wind damage that included isolated roof and significant tree damage. Most concentrated damage was near 146th avenue and 9th street.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindMoline-Severe storms produced wind gusts to near 60 mph.
April 2011HailMoline-Law enforcement in Moline reported three-quarter inch diameter hail.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindMoline-A 68 mile per hour wind gust was reported in Moline.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Dorr3.3 miles9
Green Lake3.4 miles9
Corning3.5 miles9
Wayland4.6 miles9
Hilliards5.6 miles9
New Salem7.4 miles9
Bradley7.6 miles9
Sandy Pines8.5 miles9

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 Q136348650The 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 632554. 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.

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.