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Cambria, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Cambria Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49242. It stands on Cambria Drain. The Survey maps it on the Reading quadrangle.

Cambria within Hillsdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Cambria between 2018 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODBRIDGE TWP FIRE/RESCUE F202025 - 2020
6 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODBRIDGE TWP FIRE/RESCUE F202010 - 2020
5 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 19027 - 2019
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 18036 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsdale County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cambria in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2012: 2 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 2012Thunderstorm WindCambria-County dispatch officials reported trees and power lines down in the Cambria and Reading area.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCambria-Law enforcement officials reported trees down in Cambria.

Every storm recorded in Hillsdale 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
Frontier4.2 miles10
Reading4.6 miles10
Steamburg4.6 miles11
Bankers5.4 miles10
Austin6.0 miles14
Shadyside6.8 miles10
Camden6.9 miles11
Hillsdale7.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 622501. 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.