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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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 Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Wayland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Wayland quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Dorr township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
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.
In the county-history sources
94,632 words on this townshipHistory 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 1996Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LEIGHTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000110 - 2019 |
| 19 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BYRON TOWNSHIP FD 878 - 2020 |
| 1 September 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LEIGHTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000103 - 2019 |
| 13 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DORR TOWNSHIP FD 0000107 - 2018 |
| 25 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BYRON TOWNSHIP FD 665 - 2019 |
| 8 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DORR TOWNSHIP FD 0000070 - 2020 |
| 11 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WAYLAND FD 0000109 - 2018 |
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BYRON TOWNSHIP FD 371 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moline | $25,000 | Several downed tree limbs and trees and power lines were reported. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moline | - | Straight line wind damage that included isolated roof and significant tree damage. Most concentrated damage was near 146th avenue and 9th street. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moline | - | Severe storms produced wind gusts to near 60 mph. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Moline | - | Law enforcement in Moline reported three-quarter inch diameter hail. |
| February 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moline | - | A 68 mile per hour wind gust was reported in Moline. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorr | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Green Lake | 3.4 miles | 9 | |
| Corning | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Wayland | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Hilliards | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| New Salem | 7.4 miles | 9 | |
| Bradley | 7.6 miles | 9 | |
| Sandy Pines | 8.5 miles | 9 |
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 Q136348650 | The 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.





