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Cement City, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Woodstock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49233. It stands on Burk Drain. The Survey maps it on the Cement City quadrangle.

Cement City within Lenawee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

25 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Cement City between 2018 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural4
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOMERSET TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 653 - 2020
20 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000888 - 2019
19 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 586 - 2019
14 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000436 - 2018
5 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000552 - 2019
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000467 - 2019
5 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000452 - 2019
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000232 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cement City: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Peninsular Port.Cement Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
Cambridge Junction Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cliff Brownell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stevick Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cement City in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
August 1997Thunderstorm WindCement City$50,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCement City$15,000no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindCement City$5,000Trees and powerlines reported down.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindCement City-Numerous trees blown down on a Church Property.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCement City-Five to six inch diameter trees limb reported down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCement City-Tree limbs reported down.
January 2020FloodCement City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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
Devils Lake4.7 miles18
Addison Junction5.3 miles9
Addison5.8 miles9
Cambridge Junction5.9 miles13
Devil's Lake Estates6.1 miles9
Manitou Beach7.0 miles9
Round Lake Estates7.6 miles9
Geneva8.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 622963. 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.