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Channing, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sagola Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49815. The Survey maps it on the Channing quadrangle. It stands 1,401 feet above sea level.

Channing within Dickinson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Channing between 1993 and 2019, burning about 115 acres in total. 2 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
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
11 July 2006Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 June 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAGOLA TOWNSHIP VFD 0000017 - 2019
18 June 2010Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTURKEY SHOT
25 May 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 May 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAGLE
12 May 1994Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2009Recreation and ceremony85 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2009Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLE-1 (#12)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Channing: 12 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Diamond, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
Basalt QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Dishaw PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lake Ellen KimberliteDiamondPast Producer1971
Upper Peninsula AreaDiamondProspectKimberlite
Pump House ExcavationIronProspect
Test Pits ProspectIronProspect
Test Pits ProspectIronProspect
Test Pits ProspectIronProspect
Test Pits ProspectIronProspect
Test Pits ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Channing in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindChanning$2,000Several snapped trees one to one and a half feet in diameter were observed north of Channing. Time of the thunderstorm damage was estimated from radar.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindChanning$1,000A spotter reported small trees and small branches down along Highway M-95 from just north of Channing through Silver Lake.
September 2014Heavy RainChanning-Rainfall totals between 1.5 and 3.0 inches were reported across Dickinson County over approximately a 12-hour period.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindChanning-Six-inch diameter tree snapped and 12-inch diameter tree blown over on Turner Road.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindChanning-Several 6 to 8 inch diameter trees were blown down.
May 2002HailChanning-Three quarter inch diameter hail was reported.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindChanning-One foot diameter trees were uprooted.
May 2002HailChanning-One and a half inch diameter hail was reported.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindChanning-Trees down across road.
July 2006HailChanning-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Sagola3.7 miles12
Golden3.9 miles13
Floodwood7.2 miles13
Turner10.3 miles13
Randville10.5 miles11
Granite Bluff14.1 miles11
Metropolitan14.7 miles10
Merriman15.6 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q136352815The 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 623079. 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.