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Assyria, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Assyria Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49021. It stands on Ellis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bedford quadrangle.

Assyria within Barry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

12 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Assyria between 2004 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 3 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 use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural3
Debris and open burning1

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 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPENNFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 00358 - 2019
13 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELLEVUE FD 019-134 - 2019
7 March 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELLEVUE FD 0020-76 - 2020
29 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPENNFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 00288 - 2019
29 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJOHNSTOWN FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION 0000085 - 2019
26 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELLEVUE FD 0020-94 - 2020
26 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJOHNSTOWN FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION 0000081 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Assyria: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Bellevue QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer1946
Nashville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Vermontville Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barry County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Assyria in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAssyria$25,000Several trees and power lines were blown down countywide.
May 2003HailAssyria$25,000An off duty police officer reported that an isolated severe thunderstorm produced one and three quarters inch diameter hail one miles west of Assyria.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindAssyria$10,000Law enforcement reported a couple trees blown down in Assyria township.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindAssyria$5,000A few trees were blown down by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindAssyria-Several trees were blown down by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Barry 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
Lacey3.7 miles19
Maple Grove6.1 miles10
Dowling7.6 miles12
Vickery Landing7.9 miles12
Banfield8.3 miles19
Nashville9.8 miles10
Cedar Creek11.1 miles12
Morgan11.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 620290. 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.