West Kinderhook, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kinderhook Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49028. The Survey maps it on the Kinderhook quadrangle.

West Kinderhook within Branch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of West Kinderhook between 2014 and 2019, burning about 162 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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
14 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LAKELAND VFD 0019086 - 2019
21 April 2014	Debris and open burning	154 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRANCH 0001
16 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LAKELAND VFD 0019047 - 2019
28 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRONSON FD 0000097 - 2019
26 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LAKELAND VFD 0019033 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Branch 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 West Kinderhook: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
	Harmon Marl Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
	State Line Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Branch 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
East Gilead	1.5 miles	9
Kinderhook	2.8 miles	9
Bethel	3.7 miles	9
Pearl Beach	4.6 miles	10
Canada Shores	5.2 miles	10
Gilead	5.5 miles	10
Sans Souci Beach	5.6 miles	10
Hatmaker	5.8 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617929. 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.