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Oakville, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1989. It stands in London Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48191. It stands on Oakville Drain. The Survey maps it on the Maybee quadrangle.

Oakville within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 17 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

30 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Oakville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. 3 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 use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
30 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEXETER VFD 0000171 - 2018
17 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 657 - 2020
2 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 561 - 2019
9 May 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 363 - 2020
8 May 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 298 - 2020
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 1800343 - 2018
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 1800344 - 2018
3 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLONDON-MAYBEE-RAISINVILLE FD 0000086 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oakville: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Paxton PitClayPast Producer
Wargle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakville in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2023FloodOakville$1,000,000Flood waters from the flash flooding slowly receded.
August 2023Flash FloodOakville-Heavy rain over northeast Monroe county with up around 5 inches of rain reported caused flash flooding. Residential streets were submerged in water in and around Monroe.
May 2011HailOakville-no account filed
July 1994HailOakville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
London4.6 miles17
Exeter (historical)4.9 miles17
Azalia6.2 miles15
Maybee6.4 miles17
Scofield6.7 miles17
Grape8.4 miles18
Dundee9.5 miles16
Cone9.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 633905. 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.