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Bombay, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Mills Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48642. The Survey maps it on the Averill quadrangle.

Bombay within Midland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Bombay between 1993 and 2019, burning about 271 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
20 September 2009Debris and open burning4.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 21
11 September 2005Debris and open burning10 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2018Debris and open burning4.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 01
3 June 1994Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLARKIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000095 - 2019
4 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 07

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Midland 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 Bombay: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Riverside Brick&Tile Co Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Midland County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bombay in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBombay$3,000Wires reported down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBombay-Multiple reports of trees and power lines down.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBombay-Numerous trees and power lines reported down across Midland county.
May 2012HailBombay-no account filed
May 2011HailBombay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Midland 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
Larkin1.7 miles11
Hope4.1 miles10
Averill6.6 miles13
Francis Grove6.7 miles13
Wrights (historical)6.8 miles11
Edenville7.3 miles11
Sanford7.7 miles13
Midland8.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617453. 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.