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Walnut Point, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Convis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49068. The Survey maps it on the Marshall quadrangle.

Walnut Point within Calhoun County

On record in Walnut Point

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

26 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Point between 2018 and 2020, burning about 136 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural5

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
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 281 - 2019
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 215 - 2020
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 217 - 2020
24 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 229 - 2019
17 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREDONIA TOWNSHIP FD 109 - 2020
4 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 147 - 2019
28 May 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELLEVUE FD 019-172 - 2019
13 May 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELLEVUE FD 020-128 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Walnut Point: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Alpha Prtlnd Cmnt Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
Pit No. 3 & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit No. 3 and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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
Marshall5.5 miles14
Pennfield6.4 miles18
Lee Center6.4 miles14
Ceresco6.7 miles18
Wattles Park7.5 miles18
Greenfield Park8.1 miles18
Partello8.2 miles15
Rice Creek8.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617918. 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.