Weare, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Weare Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49420. The Survey maps it on the Hart quadrangle.

Weare within Oceana County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1931 USGS Hart quadrangle1:31680
1931 USGS Hart NE quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Hart quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1976 USGS Hart NE quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Hart quadrangle1:25000
1983 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Weare between 1994 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 84 - 2019
6 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.4 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OCEANA 01
6 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 77 - 2018
5 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 89 - 2020
4 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 88 - 2020
26 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 109 - 2020
18 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 91 - 2019
14 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 98 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oceana County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Weare: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
	Hart Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
	Pentwater E.Lowlands Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oceana 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
Hart	3.6 miles	12
French Town	5.4 miles	10
Pentwater	5.5 miles	10
Crystal Valley	5.7 miles	11
Mears	6.2 miles	11
Elbridge	7.6 miles	11
Shelby	9.6 miles	11
Walkerville	11.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1622069. 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.