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Cannonsburg, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cannon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49341. The Survey maps it on the Cannonsburg quadrangle. 203 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 771 feet above sea level.

Cannonsburg within Kent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Cannonsburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 37 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/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANNON TOWNSHIP FD 518 - 2020
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000526 - 2019
20 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANNON TOWNSHIP FD 458 - 2020
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLOWELL AREA FD 472 - 2018
28 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000300 - 2018
17 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOURTLAND FD 0000192 - 2018
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000191 - 2018
13 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANNON TOWNSHIP FD 257 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cannonsburg: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Northeast Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cannonsburg in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCannonsburg$50,000Several large trees were blown down.
December 2007Thunderstorm WindCannonsburg-A trained spotter in Cannonsburg reported power failure and that a gas grill was blown over.

Every storm recorded in Kent 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
Bostwick Lake2.4 miles10
Parnell3.2 miles10
Chauncey4.3 miles16
Grattan5.1 miles10
Moseley6.5 miles10
Forest Hills6.6 miles13
Rockford6.6 miles16
Alton6.8 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 CannonsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5032850The 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 622692. 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.