Ridgeville, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49248. It stands on Raymond Drain. The Survey maps it on the Jasper quadrangle.

Ridgeville within Lenawee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Ridgeville between 2008 and 2020, burning about 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
6 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PALMYRA TOWNSHIP FD 134 - 2020
23 April 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000052 - 2019
12 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000049 - 2019
1 April 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 February 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000014 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ridgeville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Ruff's Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
	Wilt's Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lenawee 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
Jasper	2.7 miles	10
South Fairfield	3.1 miles	12
Ogden Center	3.4 miles	11
Fairfield	4.0 miles	10
Weston	4.1 miles	10
Ogden	4.7 miles	11
Sand Creek	6.4 miles	10
Madison Center	7.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617818. 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.