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West Bangor, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Bangor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49013. The Survey maps it on the McDonald quadrangle.

West Bangor within Van Buren 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.

Fires near this place

22 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of West Bangor between 2005 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 2 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 use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 285 - 2019
29 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 260 - 2020
25 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 255 - 2020
9 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOVERT FD 200166 - 2020
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOVERT FD 0000169 - 2018
7 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOVERT FD 0000167 - 2018
1 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 145 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Bangor: 1 past producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fish and Steward Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren 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
Friendsville2.0 miles11
Jericho Corners2.8 miles11
McDonald3.3 miles11
Bangor3.9 miles11
Toquin4.0 miles11
Covert4.1 miles11
Stoughton Corners5.5 miles10
Maple Grove Corners5.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617928. 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.