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Clarenceville, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Farmington Hills City. It lies in ZIP code area 48336. The Survey maps it on the Redford quadrangle.

Clarenceville within Oakland County

On record in Clarenceville

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

12 surveys from 20 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Clarenceville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 37 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
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking4
Debris and open burning4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3

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
6 September 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0010098 - 2019
14 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0032979 - 2019
11 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFARMINGTON HILLS FD 0007167 - 2019
9 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFARMINGTON HILLS FD 0006209 - 2019
4 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0027677 - 2019
31 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0031002 - 2019
3 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0028400 - 2018
25 August 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREDFORD TOWNSHIP FD 1904182 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland 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 Clarenceville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Beardsley Bros.Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Lightweight Aggregate Corp PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarenceville in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindClarenceville$2,000Large tree limbs reported down.

Every storm recorded in Oakland 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
Briarwood Senior Housing2.2 miles20
Farmington2.4 miles20
Farmington Acres2.6 miles20
Farmington Hills3.3 miles20
Quakertown3.4 miles20
Wood Creek Farms4.1 miles21
Franklin5.4 miles21
Bingham Farms5.8 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 623337. 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.