Updyke, 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 49415. The Survey maps it on the Sullivan quadrangle.

Updyke 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Updyke between 1992 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Smoking	2
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
12 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MUSKEGON FD 0003230 - 2019
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
6 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP FD 0001313 - 2019
5 July 1992	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 July 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FRUITPORT CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000795 - 2019
3 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MUSKEGON 06

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
Sullivan	2.8 miles	11
Cloverville	3.1 miles	11
Apple Carr Village	4.0 miles	11
Fruitport	4.5 miles	11
Wolf Lake	4.7 miles	10
Moorland	6.9 miles	13
Muskegon Heights	7.1 miles	11
Morland Corner	7.1 miles	13

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 Q122569759

The 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 1617907. 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.