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Allenton, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Berlin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48002. The Survey maps it on the Allenton quadrangle. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Allenton within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Allenton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 19 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
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
9 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALMONT FD 51 - 2020
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMEMPHIS VFD 2018149 - 2018
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000039 - 2018
2 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALMONT FD 27 - 2019
18 April 2020Natural5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000039 - 2020
26 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 218 - 2018
15 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 183 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Allenton: 1 producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Almont Gravel Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allenton in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2013: 3 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
July 2013Thunderstorm WindAllenton-A 30 foot camper rolled over due to strong winds.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAllenton-A tree fell onto a car.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAllenton-Local law enforcement and media reported several large trees blown down. Most of the damage was around Hough Road. Trees were uprooted and soybean plants were stripped of their leaves.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lesterville3.4 miles13
Berville3.4 miles13
Riley Center5.7 miles13
Capac6.5 miles10
Emmett10.8 miles13
Lambs12.6 miles12
Muttonville14.0 miles13
Wales Center14.2 miles12

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 Q136342845The 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 1624348. 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.

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.