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Olivers, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Chase Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49677. The Survey maps it on the Reed City North quadrangle.

Olivers within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Olivers between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSCEOLA 06
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREED CITY FD 340 - 2020
1 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREED CITY FD 338 - 2019
30 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREED CITY FD 387 - 2018
11 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE 08
30 June 2007Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Olivers: 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
Fischer Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olivers in 1 storm report in 2025: 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindOlivers-Several large trees down.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Chase2.9 miles13
Nirvana7.0 miles13
Idlewild11.7 miles16
Edgetts12.0 miles14
Luther12.1 miles14
Marlborough13.8 miles15
Skookum14.0 miles14
Baldwin14.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617759. 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.