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Westchester Heights, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Victor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48848. It stands on Alder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Price quadrangle.

Westchester Heights within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Westchester Heights between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural1

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
25 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000259 - 201
25 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000260 - 201
14 May 2019Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000223 - 201
8 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000169 - 201
26 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000181 - 201
29 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000128 - 201
26 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000150 - 201
23 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000140 - 201

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton 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
Price5.5 miles14
Ovid6.0 miles14
Shepardsville6.3 miles14
Bath7.8 miles14
Duplain9.6 miles14
East DeWitt9.7 miles12
Gunnisonville10.5 miles12
Saint Johns11.0 miles14

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 Q122548138The 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 1617933. 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.