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Cohoctah Center, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cohoctah Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48836. The Survey maps it on the Byron quadrangle.

Cohoctah Center within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Cohoctah Center between 1993 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. None 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 use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
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
8 May 1993Smoking10 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWELL AREA FD 0000467 - 2018
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTLAND AREA FD 0000203 - 2019
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWELL AREA FD 0000464 - 2018
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTLAND AREA FD 0000278 - 2018
2 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOWLERVILLE FD 207 - 2020
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOWLERVILLE FD 0000206 - 2019
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURNS TOWNSHIP FD 0000014 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cohoctah Center: 1 producer. 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
Fuoss Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cohoctah Center in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2013Tornado (EF0)Cohoctah Center$5,000Numerous hardwood and softwood trees were uprooted and snapped with this EF0 tornado. Maximum winds estimated at 80 mph. The tornado touched down near Betterly Road, tracking East, then hooking Southeast to Northeast, tracking across Byron Road before lifting just before Oak Grove Road.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindCohoctah Center-Trees reported down on road.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCohoctah Center-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Cohoctah2.1 miles14
Deer Creek4.2 miles14
Oak Grove4.8 miles12
Deerfield Center6.8 miles12
Nicholson7.4 miles13
Fleming7.8 miles11
Fowlerville8.0 miles11
Howell10.6 miles13

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 Q122564177The 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 1623164. 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.