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Brampton, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brampton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49837. The Survey maps it on the Perkins quadrangle.

Brampton within Delta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Brampton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 220 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURNT LOG
26 August 2020Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPINE BLUFF
1 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRAPID RIVER TRUCK STOP
6 July 2019Fireworksunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINDEPENDENCE
4 July 1995Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2003Debris and open burning8.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRAMPTON TOWNSHIP VFD 200318 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta 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 Brampton: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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
Goedert Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holmberg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jaeger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brampton in 1 storm report in 2018: 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBrampton$1,000There was a report from the 911 Call Center of power lines down in Brampton from thunderstorm winds. The time of the report was based on radar.

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Winde2.9 miles9
Perkins3.2 miles9
Chaison3.8 miles9
Beaver4.3 miles9
Masonville4.6 miles10
Kipling5.1 miles9
Rapid River5.5 miles10
Maplewood5.8 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BramptonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19873873The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1619304. 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.