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Teapot Dome, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Paw Paw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49079. The Survey maps it on the Paw Paw quadrangle.

Teapot Dome within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Teapot Dome between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 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/undetermined11
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAW PAW VFD 0000165 - 2019
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAW PAW VFD 0000137 - 2019
2 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAW PAW VFD 0000153 - 2018
4 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAWRENCE TOWNSHIP EMERGENCY SERVICES 19043 - 2019
27 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAW PAW VFD 0000079 - 2019
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAW PAW VFD 0000082 - 2018
2 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKEELER TOWNSHIP FIRE RESCUE 56 - 2020
26 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPAW PAW VFD 0000064 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Teapot Dome: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Budzen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J V Burkett Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Klett Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plopper Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Teapot Dome in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Thunderstorm WindTeapot Dome$25,000Law enforcement reported that several large trees and limbs were blown down near Lawrence, Decatur and Lawton.

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Wildeys0.2 miles12
Paw Paw4.0 miles12
Lawrence4.6 miles10
Glendale6.4 miles13
Lawton7.0 miles12
Decatur7.1 miles12
Fritzburg7.2 miles10
Almena8.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1614646. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.