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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.

West Olive within Ottawa 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

30 since 1992

Regional 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 use9
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORT SHELDON FD 0000172 - 2018
22 August 2003Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTTAWA #002
14 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLIVE TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 19180 - 2019
14 August 2003Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORT SHELDON FD 0000158 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2004HailWest Olive$10,000An isolated severe thunderstorm produced one inch diameter hail in West Olive during the early morning hours of the 18th.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindWest Olive$1,000no account filed
June 1998HailWest Olive-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Port Sheldon3.2 miles11
Agnew3.4 miles11
Olive Center3.5 miles11
Harlem3.9 miles11
Crisp4.3 miles11
Robinson5.6 miles11
New Holland5.8 miles11
Pine Creek6.5 miles10

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 Q122560511The 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.