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Chicora, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Cheshire Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49010. The Survey maps it on the Bloomingdale quadrangle.

Chicora within Allegan 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Chicora between 1992 and 2020, burning about 226 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 0002
16 August 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLYDE TOWNSHIP FD 0000063 - 2019
7 June 2006Natural2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 1992Debris and open burning15 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2005Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Chicora: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Belden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Smith-Belden # 8 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wedge PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Allegan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chicora in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2010: 2 tornado. 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
June 2009Tornado (EF2)Chicora$250,000Damage to both trees and structures were found along the tornado path. A Circa 1940 pole barn was destroyed and numerous trees were snapped or uprooted just over a half a mile west of Chicora north of 108th Avenue. Further down the tornado's path, garage doors were blown out and carried 300 yards while two boats were blown out of the garage. The house suffered 80% shingle loss with one 2-foot diameter hole in the roof on the home's west side. This was approximately 0.35 miles north of Chicora. The most extensive damage occurred approximately one mile northeast of Chicora along 42nd Street. A roof was partially torn off of a house. A barn was blown about 20-feet off of its foundation. There were several telephone poles snapped with wires wrapped around a tree. A roof was ripped off a small unoccupied house with one wall collapsed. Debris was lofted up to one-half mile across a field. More shingle loss was found on the west side of a home located two-miles northeast of Chicora. Nearly 80% shingle loss was witnessed. Several utility poles were snapped with widespread tree damage through the area. More damage to a home was observed about a quarter-mile west of Schermerhorn Lake. The damage happened when numerous falling trees crushed it. One-quarter mile of 39th street was blocked by fallen trees. The trees were piled up to 15-feet deep on the road. As the tornado was weakening, a 30-foot metal tower was bent over half way up. This was located near the intersection of 37th Street and 109th Avenue. Minor roof damage was also noted to a home in this area.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Chicora-A brief EF-0 tornado touched down five miles north northwest of Bloomingdale. No significant damage occurred.

Every storm recorded in Allegan 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
Cheshire Center2.7 miles13
Bakersville5.2 miles11
Sherman Park5.8 miles11
Pullman6.3 miles11
Merson6.4 miles13
Lee6.5 miles11
Bravo6.8 miles14
Allegan7.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 623184. 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.