Port Sheldon, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Port Sheldon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49460. It stands on Pigeon River. The Survey maps it on the Port Sheldon quadrangle.

Port Sheldon within Ottawa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1929 USGS Holland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1932 USGS Holland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Port Sheldon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Holland quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Port Sheldon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	10
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PORT SHELDON FD 0000172 - 2018
24 August 1996	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2003	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PORT SHELDON FD 0000158 - 2018
19 June 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PORT SHELDON FD 0000130 - 2018
19 June 1995	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Sheldon in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. 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 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Sheldon	$200,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across portions of Ottawa county.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Sheldon	$25,000	no account filed
March 2004	Hail	Port Sheldon	$10,000	Three quarters inch hail was reported by trained spotters three miles north of Port Sheldon and in Holland.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Sheldon	$10,000	Amateur radio operators reported a 62 m.p.h. wind gust in Port Sheldon.
July 2004	Hail	Port Sheldon	$10,000	Amateur radio operators reported three quarters inch diameter hail in Port Sheldon.
June 1999	Hail	Port Sheldon	$10,000	3/4" hail was reported in Port Sheldon.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Sheldon	$5,000	A few trees were blown down about a mile east of Port Sheldon.
September 2005	Hail	Port Sheldon	$5,000	A trained spotter reported three quarters inch diameter hail in Port Sheldon. Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported in Borculo.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Sheldon	-	A trained National Weather Service spotter measured 60-80 mph wind gusts at Port Sheldon at 3:42 AM EDT.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Sheldon	-	A trained National Weather Service spotter measured a 70 mph wind gust at Port Sheldon at 3:50 AM EDT.
June 1998	Hail	Port Sheldon	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
West Olive	3.2 miles	11
Agnew	4.7 miles	11
Harlem	5.0 miles	11
Pine Creek	5.9 miles	10
Olive Center	6.4 miles	11
Crisp	6.4 miles	11
Tasmas Corners	6.9 miles	10
New Holland	7.1 miles	11

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 Q122595060

The 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 635268. 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.