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Stony Point, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Prairieville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49046. The Survey maps it on the Delton quadrangle.

Stony Point within Barry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Stony Point between 1994 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Natural3

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
29 June 2005Equipment and vehicle use12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTON FD 0000234 - 2018
10 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTON FD 0000221 - 2018
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTON FD 0000174 - 2018
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHICKORY CORNERS FD 0000048 - 2019
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHICKORY CORNERS FD 0000069 - 2018
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesORANGEVILLE TOWNSHIP VFD 0000117 - 2018
30 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Stony Point: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Leonard Bros Clay PitClayPast Producer
Rieth-Riley Construction Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sutherland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barry 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
Delton1.0 miles19
Prairieville1.6 miles13
Cloverdale3.7 miles13
Hickory Corners4.7 miles19
Turners Corner4.8 miles19
Woodlawn Beach5.2 miles19
Cressey5.3 miles19
Cedar Creek5.5 miles12

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 Q33496350The 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 638921. 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.