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Oak Park, Michigan

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Bedford Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49037. The Survey maps it on the Augusta quadrangle.

Oak Park within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

54 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Oak Park between 2004 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 2 were 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 use25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural9
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
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
13 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05179 - 2018
25 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD TOWNSHIP FD 00250 - 2019
18 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 278 - 2020
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 03805 - 2018
5 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPENNFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 00600 - 2019
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 04481 - 2019
2 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 03882 - 2019
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 04000 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun 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 Oak Park: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 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
Calhoun County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dickman Road Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dickman Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hoffman Brothers Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rays Aggregates CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stoney Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Park in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 2 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindOak Park$50,000Several trees and limbs were blown down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindOak Park-Several large trees down on Hubbard Street.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Urbandale0.8 miles18
Level Park0.8 miles22
Springfield2.4 miles18
Bedford2.9 miles19
Orchard Park4.0 miles18
Springfield Place4.0 miles18
Morgan Corners4.0 miles18
Lakeview4.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 633850. 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.