BlockVriesland, Michigan
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Zeeland Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49464. The Survey maps it on the Hudsonville West quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Grandville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Hudsonville West quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Vriesland in 2019, burning about 7 acres in total. None 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/undetermined | 7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | JAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 19381 - 2019 |
| 20 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HUDSONVILLE FD 19358 - 2019 |
| 17 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ZEELAND TOWNSHIP FD 19465 - 2019 |
| 15 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ZEELAND TOWNSHIP FD 19411 - 2019 |
| 8 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ZEELAND TOWNSHIP FD 19356 - 2019 |
| 25 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HUDSONVILLE FD 19224 - 2019 |
| 15 November 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ZEELAND TOWNSHIP FD 19676 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Vriesland: 1 producer. All of them 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ottawa County Road Commission Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vriesland in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Vriesland | $34,000,000 | Numerous reports of damage to homes and streets across the warned area occurred. Over 2000 homes sustained some type of damage during the flooding. In terms of roads impacted by water, there were four road closures, twenty five road washouts and forty roads were covered by water.||A Local State of Emergency was declared. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Vriesland | $1,500,000 | Three to five inches fell in just one to three hours across portions of central and eastern Ottawa county. This caused extensive flooding of the Grand Valley State University Allendale campus, where over a million dollars worth of damage due to flooding was reported. A coop observer in Allendale measured 4.43 inches of rainfall with this event and a CoCoRaHs observer near Tallmadge measured 3.74 inches of rainfall. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Vriesland | $200,000 | Tornado occurred just east of Zeeland, MI. It touched down near the intersection of 80th Avenue and Quincy snapping tree limbs and knocking a telephone pole about 30 degrees out of vertical. It then crossed mostly open field where a couple of isolated trees were uprooted before it crossed 72 Avenue just north of Chicago Drive. Here, it knocked down numerous trees significantly damaging the roof of one residence and causing minor damage to two other houses. The tornado then crossed Chicago Drive knocking down more trees before damaging several corn bins and ripping about 10% of the shingles off a residence located just north of the 64th Avenue and Riley Street intersection. ||The tornado was associated with two intersecting bowing thunderstorm line segments and was a spin-up tornado. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vriesland | $100,000 | The public reported wind damage with downed trees, power lines, and a barn roof was damaged near Vriesland. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vriesland | - | Outbuilding severely damaged by wind. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drenthe | 2.0 miles | 9 | |
| Beaverdam | 2.7 miles | 9 | |
| Forest Grove Station | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Zutphen | 3.2 miles | 9 | |
| Zeeland | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Forest Grove | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| South Blendon | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Jamestown | 5.3 miles | 9 |
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 Q122563435 | 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 1615634. 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.