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Birdsall, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Raisin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49221. It stands on Harkness Drain. The Survey maps it on the Adrian quadrangle.

Birdsall within Lenawee County

On record in Birdsall

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

30 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Birdsall between 2006 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined16
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use5

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
18 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADRIAN CITY FD 0003409 - 2019
29 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADRIAN CITY FD 0003644 - 2019
27 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADRIAN CITY FD 0003122 - 2019
24 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTECUMSEH FD 676 - 2020
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADRIAN TOWNSHIP FD 0000389 - 2018
23 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTECUMSEH FD 579 - 2020
23 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRAISIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000326 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Birdsall: 4 producers. 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
Adrian Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Brady Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Burkett Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tecumseh Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Birdsall in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 6 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
May 2010Thunderstorm WindBirdsall$50,000Numerous trees, large branches, and power lines reported down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBirdsall$10,000Trees reported down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBirdsall$5,000Trees reported down.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBirdsall$4,000Trees reported down, along with wires and power pole.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBirdsall-Trees and power lines reported down.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBirdsall-Trees reported blown down.
May 2011HailBirdsall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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
Raisin Center2.9 miles11
Adrian3.5 miles12
Friendly Village of Adrian4.6 miles12
Holloway4.8 miles11
Lenawee Junction5.1 miles11
Tecumseh5.3 miles15
Madison Center6.0 miles10
Tipton6.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 621441. 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.