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Blaine, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48032. The Survey maps it on the Ruby quadrangle.

Blaine within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Blaine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLYDE TOWNSHIP FD 098 - 2019
1 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBROCKWAY TOWNSHIP FD 019-192 - 2019
9 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRANT TOWNSHIP FD 0000039 - 2018
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKENOCKEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000089 - 2018
2 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURTCHVILLE TOWNSHIP FD 200085 - 2020
3 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRANT TOWNSHIP FD 0000027 - 2020
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLYDE TOWNSHIP FD 0000035 - 2019
20 April 2018Smoking6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRANT TOWNSHIP FD 0000032 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair 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 Blaine: 3 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
Shipley Pit and Wash PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St Clair County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Worth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blaine in 2 storm reports in 2009: 2 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
April 2009Thunderstorm WindBlaine$25,000A barn was blown down, along with trees and shingles off a roof.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindBlaine$25,000Shingles and siding blown off homes.

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
Jeddo2.5 miles10
Atkins3.6 miles11
Fargo4.2 miles10
North Lakeport4.7 miles8
Lakeport4.8 miles10
Ruby5.3 miles11
Avoca6.9 miles10
Gardendale7.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1624399. 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.