Ottawa, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Erie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48133. The Survey maps it on the Lambertville East quadrangle.

Ottawa within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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.

1912 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Samaria quadrangle1:31680
1939 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Samaria quadrangle1:24000
1940 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1941 USGS Samaria quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Lambertville East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

24 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Ottawa between 2010 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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 use	12
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	1

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	BEDFORD FD 0001996 - 2019
8 July 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MORIN POINT FD 96 - 2020
7 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MORIN POINT FD 95 - 2020
30 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ERIE TOWNSHIP FD 260 - 2020
20 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ERIE TOWNSHIP FD 261 - 2019
7 June 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MORIN POINT FD 78 - 2020
7 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LUNA PIER FD 80 - 2018
6 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BEDFORD FD 0000973 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Vienna Junction	1.5 miles	19
Erie	2.3 miles	18
Temperance	2.6 miles	19
Vienna	2.7 miles	18
Liberty Corners	3.7 miles	16
Samaria	4.1 miles	19
Yargerville	4.9 miles	19
Luna Pier	5.0 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617764. 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.