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Clifton Mill, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Washington Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48095. The Survey maps it on the Romeo quadrangle.

Clifton Mill within Macomb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Clifton Mill between 2018 and 2019, burning about 14 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 use6
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2

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
5 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRUCE TOWNSHIP-ROMEO FD 0001083 - 2019
13 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP FD 0001820 - 2018
9 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRUCE TOWNSHIP-ROMEO FD 0000957 - 2019
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP FD 0001486 - 2018
13 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRUCE TOWNSHIP-ROMEO FD 0000975 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 188 - 2019
13 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRUCE TOWNSHIP-ROMEO FD 0000565 - 2019
12 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000749 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macomb County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Clifton Mill: 7 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Addison Township PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Compton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Great Lakes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Holloway Oakland County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Natural Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Romeo Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sees Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Macomb 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
Mount Vernon3.0 miles18
Romeo4.1 miles12
Washington4.9 miles18
Rudgate East Company Mobile Home Park5.7 miles18
Disco7.5 miles18
Preston Corners7.6 miles17
Davis7.6 miles17
Shelby8.4 miles18

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 Q122552656The 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 1617492. 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.