Sullivan, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Sullivan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49451. The Survey maps it on the Sullivan quadrangle.

Sullivan within Muskegon 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.

1930 USGS Muskegon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Muskegon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Muskegon quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Sullivan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 145 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
23 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MUSKEGON 03
8 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EGELSTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000493 - 2018
3 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MUSKEGON 06
27 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FRUITPORT CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000778 - 2019
20 July 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	44 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MUSKEGON 03
9 June 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EGELSTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000394 - 2018
8 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EGELSTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000393 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskegon 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
Updyke	2.8 miles	11
Moorland	4.6 miles	13
Morland Corner	5.0 miles	13
Apple Carr Village	5.5 miles	11
Wolf Lake	5.8 miles	10
Cloverville	6.0 miles	11
Ravenna	6.2 miles	13
Fruitport	6.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 639033. 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.