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Overisel, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Overisel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49423. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton West quadrangle.

Overisel within Allegan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

In the county-history sources

403 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Overisel Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Overisel Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Overisel between 2018 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. None 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
15 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOVERISEL FD 2000087 - 2020
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000282 - 2018
26 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND FD 191883 - 2019
21 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAMILTON FD 0000129 - 2018
3 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOVERISEL FD 0000027 - 2018
27 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAAFSCHAP FD 2019148 - 2019
8 November 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAMILTON FD 0000389 - 2018
29 November 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAMILTON FD 1900413 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Overisel: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Grand Rapids Clay Shale PitClayPast Producer
Hamilton Washing PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottawa County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Zeeland Brick Co Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Allegan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Overisel in 1 storm report in 2009: 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindOverisel-A trained spotter three miles southwest of Drenthe reported that six inch branches and tree limbs crashed through the roof of a house.

Every storm recorded in Allegan 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
Fillmore1.8 miles15
Hamilton3.5 miles15
Oakland4.9 miles10
Bentheim5.0 miles10
East Saugatuck5.5 miles15
Diamond Springs6.8 miles10
Graafschap6.9 miles10
New Richmond7.5 miles15

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 Q122545776The 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 634231. 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.