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South Monterey, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Monterey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49010. The Survey maps it on the Allegan quadrangle.

South Monterey within Allegan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of South Monterey between 1993 and 2020, burning about 350 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 August 2012Natural17 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 03
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN FD 174 - 2020
27 June 2004Smoking2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2004Natural34 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1995Arson/incendiarism40 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1995Smoking30 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 1995Arson/incendiarism15 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN FD 0000107 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of South Monterey: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Belden Marl Pit 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Allegan Co Pit Cole BrosSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Allegan Co Pit Yerington ConstSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Middlemiss PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Miller Pit & Wash PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pickett and Schreur, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Monterey Center2.5 miles9
Millgrove3.8 miles9
Hopkins4.7 miles9
Allegan5.1 miles9
Dunningville5.6 miles9
Diamond Springs6.1 miles10
Sandy Pines6.2 miles9
Hopkinsburg7.5 miles9

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 Q122552328The 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 638392. 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.