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Ottawa Center, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Crockery Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49404. It lies near Fishermans Island. The Survey maps it on the Nunica quadrangle.

Ottawa Center within Ottawa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Ottawa Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
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
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCROCKERY TOWNSHIP FD 19351 - 2019
7 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 June 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 2005Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTTAWA 01
12 May 1992Misuse of fire by a minor1.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa 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 Ottawa Center: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Construction Aggregates Corp PitClayPast Producer
Bass River Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Construction Aggregates Corp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rieth-Riley Constr. Aggregate PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Dennison3.8 miles13
Nunica4.0 miles10
Eastmanville4.1 miles13
Robinson4.1 miles11
Rusk5.1 miles11
Coopersville5.6 miles13
Allendale5.7 miles10
Clark Corners6.1 miles12

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 Q122595821The 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 634169. 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.