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New Holland, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Olive Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49424. The Survey maps it on the Holland East quadrangle.

New Holland within Ottawa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

22 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of New Holland between 2004 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 19636 - 2019
21 September 2005Debris and open burning7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2012Debris and open burning8.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTTAWA 02
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 19543 - 2019
2 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTTAWA #002
14 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLIVE TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 19180 - 2019
10 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 20528 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Holland: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Zeeland Brick Co.Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ottawa 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
Noordeloos1.5 miles11
Crisp2.0 miles11
Harlem2.1 miles11
Borculo3.7 miles11
Pine Creek3.7 miles10
Waverly3.8 miles11
Oaklawn Beechwood4.0 miles11
Olive Center4.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 633323. 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.