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Bridgewater, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bridgewater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48176. The Survey maps it on the Bridgewater quadrangle.

Bridgewater within Washtenaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bridgewater between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLINTON FD 239 - 2020
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLINTON FD 0000184 - 2018
6 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANCHESTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000132 - 2019
27 March 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALINE AREA FD 0000360 - 2019
25 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALINE AREA FD 0000353 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washtenaw 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 Bridgewater: 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
Van Allstine Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Washtenaw County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washtenaw County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgewater in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 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
June 2006HailBridgewater-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washtenaw 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
Benton3.1 miles16
River Raisin5.0 miles15
Saline6.4 miles16
Rogers Corner6.6 miles15
Manchester7.2 miles12
Rowes Corner7.2 miles12
Jerusalem8.9 miles19
Lima Center9.8 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 621974. 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.