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Oak Grove, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cohoctah Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48855. The Survey maps it on the Oak Grove quadrangle.

Oak Grove within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 1993 and 2019, burning about 53 acres in total. None 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 use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
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 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWELL AREA FD 0000873 - 2018
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWELL AREA FD 0000781 - 2018
14 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWELL AREA FD 0000642 - 2019
8 May 1993Smoking10 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 May 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIVINGSTON 02
17 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWELL AREA FD 0000517 - 2019
16 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTLAND AREA FD 0000283 - 2019
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWELL AREA FD 0000467 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston 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 Oak Grove: 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
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Grove in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindOak Grove$800,000Trees reported down throughout the county. Over 400 homes and mobile homes were affected, with 4 homes suffering major damage.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOak Grove$40,000Trees reported down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-Trees were reported blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-Central dispatch reported a tree blown down.
July 2014HailOak Grove-no account filed
July 2012HailOak Grove-no account filed
June 1994HailOak Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Cohoctah4.2 miles14
Deer Creek4.3 miles14
Deerfield Center4.4 miles12
Cohoctah Center4.8 miles14
Fleming5.8 miles11
Howell6.4 miles13
Parshallville8.0 miles12
Fowlerville8.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 633813. 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.