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Arnold, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Wells Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49818. It stands on Elie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Arnold quadrangle. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Arnold within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Arnold between 1995 and 2015, burning about 84 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
7 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARNOLD
30 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSWEET APPLE
6 July 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFURLOUGH
5 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 June 1995Equipment and vehicle use7.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 June 2004Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette 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 Arnold: 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
Felber PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arnold in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 heavy rain. 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindArnold$2,000There was a delayed report from the observer in Arnold that the telephone lines were out. Time of the damage was estimated from radar.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindArnold$2,000The observer near Watson reported a few maple trees uprooted on Little West Road. Size of the trees were unknown.
May 2017Heavy RainArnold-The observer near Arnold measured over two inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
July 2014Heavy RainArnold-The observer near Arnold measured over an inch of rainfall in three hours.
June 2012Heavy RainArnold-The observer near Arnold measured 1.70 inches of rainfall.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindArnold-The observer in Arnold reported a few trees down.
April 2004HailArnold-Half-dollar sized hail was reported.
July 2003HailArnold-Three-quarter inch hail was reported.
May 2002HailArnold-Three quarter inch diameter hail was reported.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindArnold-One to two inch diameter branches were broken off.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindArnold-20 trees averaging 16 inches in diameter uprooted.
August 2008HailArnold-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marquette 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
Mashek1.1 miles11
Reade3.7 miles10
Watson4.7 miles11
Northland5.7 miles10
McFarland15.9 miles12
New Swanzy16.0 miles18
Gwinn16.1 miles18
Austin16.2 miles18

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 Q136352825The 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 1617422. 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.