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Cone, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Milan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48160. It stands on Cone Drain. The Survey maps it on the Macon quadrangle.

Cone within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

16 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Cone between 2018 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 2 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 use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2

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 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 808 - 2019
5 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 707 - 2020
23 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 680 - 2020
3 July 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 515 - 2020
26 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000141 - 2018
2 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 1800432 - 2018
18 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 336 - 2020
13 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 326 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Cone: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Meyer Brothers'Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cone in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
January 2020FloodCone-no account filed
April 2001HailCone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Rea4.3 miles16
Azalia4.7 miles15
Dundee7.1 miles16
London7.5 miles17
Diann9.2 miles16
Petersburg9.2 miles16
Oakville9.7 miles17
Petersburg Junction10.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 623689. 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.