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Chapin, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chapin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48841. The Survey maps it on the Chapin quadrangle.

Chapin within Saginaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Chapin between 2003 and 2020, burning about 46 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/undetermined2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELSIE FD 1900050 - 2019
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELSIE FD 2000043 - 2020
6 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000038 - 2019
15 April 2003Debris and open burning42 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESANING-BRADY FD 128 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saginaw County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chapin in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2004: 1 flash flood, 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
May 2004Thunderstorm WindChapin-A trained weather spotter estimated a 80 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 1998Flash FloodChapin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saginaw 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
Fenmore3.5 miles14
Racy4.3 miles14
Brady Center5.0 miles15
Oakley7.3 miles15
Marion Springs7.8 miles14
Parshallburg9.0 miles15
Brant9.6 miles15
Fordney9.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 623091. 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.