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Brant, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48614. It stands on Little Potato Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Charles quadrangle.

Brant within Saginaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

23 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Brant between 2003 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined11
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESANING-BRADY FD 121 - 2019
31 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRI-TOWNSHIP FD 141 - 2020
20 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution3.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAGINAW 01
14 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRI-TOWNSHIP FD 0000127 - 2018
26 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRI-TOWNSHIP FD 112 - 2020
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRI-TOWNSHIP FD 0000080 - 2018
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESANING-BRADY FD 47 - 2019
6 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRI-TOWNSHIP FD 0000045 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saginaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Brant: 2 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
Saginaw Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sargent Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Saginaw County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brant in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2014Tornado (EF1)Brant$250,000U.S. National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed a tornado damage path near St. Charles Michigan. The damage was consistent with EF-1 tornado damage. Estimated peak wind values were 90-100 mph. Initial EF-0 damage was observed near the intersections of Marion and Raucholz roads, approximately 6 miles southwest of St. Charles. The Damage consisted of mainly tree limbs. Damage intensity increased to EF-1 along Fordney road between Brant and Fergus roads and continued to the vicinity of Ring and Oakley roads. Several large trees were uprooted and many more were damaged severely, some of which fell on adjacent dwellings. Some minor to moderate structural damage was also observed, consisting mainly of partially lost roofs, blown out garage doors and destruction of out buildings. Additional EF-0 damage was observed across M-52 north of Ring road and continued to near Sharon road on the far south side of St Charles.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindBrant$10,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBrant$2,000Law enforcement reported trees down on power lines.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindBrant-Power line reported down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBrant-A trained spotter estimated a 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindBrant-Central dispatch received a report of a very large tree down on the 18000 block of Brant Road.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBrant-Residents had to evacuate a home on South Brennan after thuunderstorm wind gust knocked a tree into power lines.
September 2021HailBrant-no account filed
August 2015HailBrant-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindBrant-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saginaw 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
Fordney4.3 miles12
Nelson5.2 miles15
Marion Springs5.3 miles14
Saint Charles5.4 miles15
Groveton5.5 miles15
Brady Center6.0 miles15
Racy6.0 miles14
Roosevelt6.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 621900. 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.