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Ceresco, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Marshall Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49033. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ceresco quadrangle.

Ceresco within Calhoun County

On record in Ceresco

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

33 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Ceresco between 2004 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking3
Natural3
Debris and open burning1
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
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREDONIA TOWNSHIP FD 106 - 2019
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWTON TOWNSHIP FD 00140 - 2018
31 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREDONIA TOWNSHIP FD 103 - 2019
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 217 - 2020
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 182 - 2020
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 181 - 2020
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL FD 00483 - 2018
20 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT TOWNSHIP DPS 00881 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun 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 Ceresco: 1 producer. 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
Calhoun Co Pit Bill Smith S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ceresco in 1 storm report in 2009: 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
April 2009Thunderstorm WindCeresco-Damage began 4.5 miles west-southwest of Marshall and continued east-northeast for a total of 13 miles. The damage swath was roughly two miles wide. The greatest concentration occurred one to three miles west-southwest of town where numerous trees were knocked down and about 10 sections of an irrigation pivot were blown over. Other damage included a few shingles blown off a house and a contruction trailer blown over. An NWS survey team estimated peak wind gusts of 65.0 knots. The concentration of damage was much less from Marshall to the east-northeast where 50 knot winds were estimated based on widely scattered tree damage.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Wattles Park3.3 miles18
Beadle Lake4.7 miles18
Marshall5.2 miles14
Brownlee Park5.4 miles18
Stanley Corners5.5 miles14
Greenfield Park5.9 miles18
Sunrise Heights6.2 miles18
Verona Park6.4 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 623025. 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.