Abbottsford, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Clyde Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48049. It stands on O'Loughlin Drain. The Survey maps it on the Avoca quadrangle.

Abbottsford within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Avoca quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Croswell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Abbottsford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLYDE TOWNSHIP FD 098 - 2019
9 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FORT GRATIOT FD 1800484 - 2018
16 May 1992	Recreation and ceremony	3.6 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLYDE TOWNSHIP FD 0000035 - 2019
27 April 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KIMBALL TOWNSHIP FD 222 - 2019
10 April 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 March 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KIMBALL TOWNSHIP FD 159 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair 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 Abbottsford: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Click Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Smock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair 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
Ruby	2.1 miles	11
Goodells	3.2 miles	12
Thornton	3.6 miles	12
Avoca	4.2 miles	10
Atkins	4.2 miles	11
Wadhams	5.5 miles	12
West Tappan	5.9 miles	12
Wales Center	5.9 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1624336. 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.