Rudds Mill, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Orion Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48362. It lies near Park Island. The Survey maps it on the Lake Orion quadrangle.

Rudds Mill within Oakland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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.

1943 USGS Lake Orion quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1945 USGS Lake Orion quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Lake Orion quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Pontiac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Lake Orion quadrangle1:24000
1996 USGS Lake Orion quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Rudds Mill between 2018 and 2019, burning about 3 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

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
17 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ORION TOWNSHIP FD 0000198 - 2019
1 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OXFORD FD 180632 - 2018
24 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OAKLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000208 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Rudds Mill: 6 producers, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ajax Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bald Mt Plant No. 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oxford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oxford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Webers Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Webers Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Webers Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland 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
Lake Orion	1.6 miles	13
Lake Orion Heights	2.4 miles	14
Goodison	3.8 miles	21
Oxford	4.6 miles	14
Campbells Corner	5.0 miles	13
Lakeville	5.2 miles	13
Auburn Hills	5.6 miles	21
Gingellville	5.7 miles	21

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 Q122594602

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 1617829. 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.