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Wooster, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Sherman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49412. The Survey maps it on the White Cloud quadrangle.

Wooster within Newaygo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

80 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Wooster between 1993 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2

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 2003Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestWOOSTER
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestNEW SHIRT
9 August 2020Debris and open burning1.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWAYGO 03
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLAND-GRANT FIRE DISTRICT 274 - 2019
9 July 2001Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestBASELINE
8 July 2016Fireworksunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCANNON
7 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestNO DETAIL FIRE
4 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWAYGO 01

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newaygo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wooster in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 2 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWooster$50,000Trees and power lines were blown down north of Fremont.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindWooster-Newaygo county emergency management reported that several trees were blown down in the road near the intersection of 32nd Avenue and Luce.

Every storm recorded in Newaygo 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
Jugville1.8 miles14
Aetna4.7 miles14
Fremont4.7 miles12
Alleyton (historical)5.0 miles14
Dayton Center5.6 miles14
White Cloud6.1 miles14
Bishop6.1 miles12
Newaygo7.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1622220. 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.