Pearl, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Clyde Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49408. The Survey maps it on the Fennville quadrangle.

Pearl within Allegan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1928 USGS Fennville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1931 USGS Fennville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Fennville quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Holland quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Pearl between 1992 and 2020, burning about 297 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 use	18
Debris and open burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
19 September 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALLEGAN 04
16 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLYDE TOWNSHIP FD 0000076 - 2018
14 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALLEGAN 02
4 July 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000182 - 2019
14 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GANGES TOWNSHIP FD 0000135 - 2018
8 May 1992	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000059 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pearl in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2010: 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Pearl	$50,000	Numerous trees and limbs were blown down five miles south southeast of Fennville and one and three quarters inch diameter hail was reported three miles southeast of Fennville.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Pearl	$5,000	A 60 m.p.h. wind gust was estimated three miles east of Pearl.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Pearl	-	Power lines were blown down and a eight inch diameter tree was broken in half in Allegan.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bravo	2.0 miles	14
Sherman Park	3.5 miles	11
Fennville	3.6 miles	14
Bakersville	3.8 miles	11
Pullman	4.0 miles	11
Spring Grove	4.7 miles	14
Grange Corners	5.7 miles	14
Lee	6.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 634522. 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.

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.