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Bretton Woods, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Delta Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48917. The Survey maps it on the Lansing South quadrangle.

Bretton Woods within Eaton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

60 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Bretton Woods between 1995 and 2019, burning about 58 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/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning3

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
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLINTON 01 - TURNER MUCK FIRE
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING FD 0015086 - 2018
18 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING FD 0016391 - 2019
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING TOWNSHIP FD 0000353 - 2018
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1910940 - 2019
21 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING FD 0014536 - 2019
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING FD 0014406 - 2019
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1910689 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eaton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bretton Woods in 1 storm report in 2021: 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBretton Woods$100,000Several trees and power lines were blown down across portions of Eaton county.

Every storm recorded in Eaton 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
Waverly0.4 miles14
Delta Mills2.4 miles11
Delta Center2.8 miles14
Millett2.9 miles14
Dimondale6.9 miles14
Whaley Drain7.0 miles14
Grand Ledge7.1 miles11
West Windsor7.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617081. 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.

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.