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North Dorr, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Byron Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49315. The Survey maps it on the Hudsonville East quadrangle.

North Dorr within Kent 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

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of North Dorr between 1995 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 2 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 use5
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
13 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBYRON TOWNSHIP FD 857 - 2020
13 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDORR TOWNSHIP FD 0000107 - 2018
20 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBYRON TOWNSHIP FD 639 - 2019
15 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBYRON TOWNSHIP FD 550 - 2020
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDORR TOWNSHIP FD 0000067 - 2018
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBYRON TOWNSHIP FD 371 - 2018
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBYRON TOWNSHIP FD 311 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent 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 North Dorr: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Dorr in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2011HailNorth Dorr$12,000,000Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter fell in a one mile wide swath from Jamestown in extreme northeast Ottawa County through Kentwood and East Grand Rapids. The swath continued northeast towards Belding in northwest Ionia County. The swath was estimated based on the correlation of multiple spotter reports with maximum estimated hail size, NSSL hail swath track algorithm, and 0.5 degree reflectivity products form WFO-GRR WSR88D.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindNorth Dorr$3,000There was isolated tree damage and a shed was damaged near Dorr.

Every storm recorded in Kent 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
Byron Center3.7 miles15
Ross3.7 miles15
Corinth5.3 miles15
North Byron5.5 miles15
Carlisle5.8 miles15
Cutlerville7.2 miles15
Kentwood9.3 miles15
Grandville9.7 miles11

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 Q122548846The 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 633563. 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.

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.