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Alamando, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Warren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48618. The Survey maps it on the Alamando quadrangle.

Alamando within Midland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Alamando between 1992 and 2019, burning about 193 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning10
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
28 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 15
27 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 15
8 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 06
20 July 2001Fireworksunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Midland 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 Alamando: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fish's Tile Plant Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Pohl Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Midland 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
North Bradley2.9 miles13
Coleman3.3 miles11
Curtis4.5 miles11
Wrights (historical)7.1 miles11
Francis Grove7.4 miles13
Edenville8.6 miles11
Sanford9.1 miles13
Olson9.6 miles13

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 Q122567660The 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 1617407. 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.