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Chestonia, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jordan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49727. It stands on Kocher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chestonia quadrangle.

Chestonia within Antrim County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Chestonia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
17 September 2002Recreation and ceremony2.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2020Recreation and ceremony1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANTRIM 03 - STUMBLE TRIP
3 May 2003Misuse of fire by a minor4.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 May 2012Recreation and ceremony15 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANTRIM 03

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Antrim County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Chestonia: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Jh Kocher Shale PitClayProspect
Unnamed Shale ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Antrim County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chestonia in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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
July 2024LightningChestonia$65,000A cooperative observer reported lightning struck a trailer house, setting it ablaze, in the vicinity of East Jordan on the morning of July 14th. This report was corroborated by the Charlevoix Emergency Manager as well as Facebook reports. The structure was two trailer houses joined together; it was a total loss due to the fire. The occupants were all hospitalized...2 were taken to a nearby hospital in Petoskey where they were listed in fair condition; the third had to be transported to a larger hospital in Grand Rapids to receive treatment for his injuries for multiple days.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindChestonia$25,000Report estimating an 80 foot wide swath of trees down on the southwest side of Walloon Lake.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindChestonia$4,000Power lines were downed. A tractor-trailer was overturned near the intersection of M-66 and Bartholomew Road.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindChestonia$1,000Several large tree limbs downed.
May 2013HailChestonia-no account filed
July 2008HailChestonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Antrim 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
Finkton2.3 miles12
Pleasant Valley4.4 miles12
Green River5.0 miles16
Alba8.3 miles13
Bellaire9.0 miles15
Snowflake (historical)9.2 miles12
Wetzel9.2 miles16
Central Lake9.9 miles12

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 Q122568493The 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 1617486. 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.