BlockThe Heights, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Norvell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49230. It stands on Plum Brook Drain. The Survey maps it on the Onsted quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1948 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Onsted quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
29 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of The Heights between 2018 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 7 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 | 11 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMBRIDGE FD 626 - 2020 |
| 20 July 2019 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ADDISON FD 0000888 - 2019 |
| 19 July 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMBRIDGE FD 586 - 2019 |
| 15 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMBRIDGE FD 493 - 2020 |
| 14 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 490 - 2020 |
| 14 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000436 - 2018 |
| 6 May 2019 | Natural | 15 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMBRIDGE FD 314 - 2019 |
| 3 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 271 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1614712. 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.