West Olive, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Port Sheldon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49460. The Survey maps it on the Port Sheldon quadrangle. It stands 614 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1929 USGS Holland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1932 USGS Holland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Port Sheldon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Holland quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
30 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of West Olive between 1992 and 2019, burning about 64 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were 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 | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PORT SHELDON FD 0000172 - 2018 |
| 22 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OTTAWA #002 |
| 14 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OLIVE TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 19180 - 2019 |
| 14 August 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 August 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PORT SHELDON FD 0000158 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Olive in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2004: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2004 | Hail | West Olive | $10,000 | An isolated severe thunderstorm produced one inch diameter hail in West Olive during the early morning hours of the 18th. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Olive | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | West Olive | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Sheldon | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Agnew | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Olive Center | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Harlem | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Crisp | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Robinson | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| New Holland | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Pine Creek | 6.5 miles | 10 |
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 Q122560511 | 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 1616155. 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.
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.





