Oaklawn Beechwood, Michigan

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

Oaklawn Beechwood 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.

1929 USGS Holland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1932 USGS Holland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Holland East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Holland quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

31 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Oaklawn Beechwood between 2004 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 19636 - 2019
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 19543 - 2019
16 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAAFSCHAP FD 2019424 - 2019
10 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 20528 - 2020
9 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOLLAND FD 0002036 - 2018
6 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOLLAND FD 0002003 - 2018
4 July 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOLLAND FD 0001973 - 2018

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 Oaklawn Beechwood: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Zeeland Brick Co.Clay Pit	Fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Beechwood	0.8 miles	10
Holland	1.2 miles	11
Waverly	1.5 miles	11
Pine Creek	2.0 miles	10
Tasmas Corners	2.3 miles	10
Noordeloos	3.9 miles	11
Virginia Park	4.0 miles	10
New Holland	4.0 miles	11

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 Q122562676

The 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 633885. 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.