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Anchorville, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Ira Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48023. It stands on Marsac Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Baltimore quadrangle. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Anchorville within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Anchorville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 2 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 use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
10 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 453 - 2018
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BALTIMORE FD 0000743 - 2019
25 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BALTIMORE FD 0000831 - 2019
8 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BALTIMORE FD 623 - 2019
18 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW HAVEN FIRE/RESCUE 0000355 - 2019
24 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BALTIMORE FD 579 - 2019
24 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLENOX TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000303 - 2019
14 June 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 302 - 2018

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 Anchorville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Engleman's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anchorville in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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
November 2019FloodAnchorville$11,900,000no account filed
September 2001LightningAnchorville$20,000Lightning struck a tree, causing the tree to break and land on top of a house.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindAnchorville$10,000Trees and powerlines reported down in Ira Township, some of which fell onto houses.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindAnchorville$1,000Six to nine inch diameter tree limbs were blown down on Church Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindAnchorville-Numerous trees were reported blown down across much of St. Clair county.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAnchorville-Powerlines were reported down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindAnchorville-Large tree limbs were reported blown down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindAnchorville-Spotters reported several trees blown down.
July 2020FloodAnchorville-no account filed
August 2020FloodAnchorville-no account filed
September 2020FloodAnchorville-no account filed
June 2020FloodAnchorville-no account filed
July 2011HailAnchorville-no account filed

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
Fair Haven2.0 miles12
Copeland Corner3.7 miles13
Perch Point4.0 miles13
Casco4.3 miles13
Peters4.8 miles12
Starville5.4 miles13
Pearl Beach6.6 miles13
Muttonville7.7 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 Q122550369The 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 1624352. 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.