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Monteith Station, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Martin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49070. The Survey maps it on the Martin quadrangle.

Monteith Station 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.

Fires near this place

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Monteith Station between 1993 and 2020, burning about 43 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
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARTIN FIRE/RESCUE 0000076 - 2018
11 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARTIN FIRE/RESCUE 0000075 - 2019
14 June 2017Debris and open burning7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 04 - MARTIN FIELD
6 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 04
23 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGUN PLAIN CHARTER TWP FD 0000072 - 2020
1 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARTIN FIRE/RESCUE 0000054 - 2020
4 April 2019Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARTIN FIRE/RESCUE 0000039 - 2019
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGUN PLAIN CHARTER TWP FD 0000047 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Monteith Station: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Clay. 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
Cushman Bros Clay PitClayPast Producer
Hervig Mall PitLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Pavlak PitLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Allegan Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Millers Pit & Mill # 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Martin1.0 miles9
East Martin3.2 miles9
Watson3.5 miles9
Hooper4.1 miles9
Neeley4.7 miles9
Shelbyville5.0 miles9
Otsego5.2 miles17
Plainwell5.7 miles17

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 Q122559709The 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 2574104. 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.