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Beebe, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Emerson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48801. It stands on Beaver Drain. The Survey maps it on the Ithaca quadrangle.

Beebe within Gratiot County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

9 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Beebe in 2019, burning about 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRECKENRIDGE-WHEELER FD 0000168 - 2019
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRECKENRIDGE-WHEELER FD 0000194 - 2019
9 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000246 - 2019
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000147 - 2019
28 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000161 - 2019
26 April 2019Natural7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000160 - 2019
25 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMID-MICHIGAN COMMUNITY FD 0000116 - 2019
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000138 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gratiot County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beebe in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBeebe$50,000Several power outages and downed trees and limbs were reported.
May 2006Tornado (F0)Beebe-This F0 tornado produced no damage along it's path and eyewitnesses saw a dust cloud near the base of the tornado.

Every storm recorded in Gratiot 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
Ithaca4.4 miles14
Saint Louis5.9 miles14
North Star6.0 miles13
Rathbone6.3 miles12
Breckenridge6.3 miles12
Sickles6.6 miles12
Alma6.6 miles14
Edgewood7.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 620991. 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.

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.