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Croton, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Croton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49337. It stands on Little Muskegon River. The Survey maps it on the Croton quadrangle.

Croton within Newaygo County

On record in Croton

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 1 record

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

201 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Croton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 704 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Arson/incendiarism14
Recreation and ceremony13
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural8
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes3
Fireworks1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCROTON TOWNSHIP FD 143 - 2020
19 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestTEREX
11 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCROTON TOWNSHIP FD 144 - 2020
9 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestLONE TREE
4 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestPRICKLY PEAR
11 August 2007Debris and open burning2.2 acresHuron-Manistee National Forest28TH STEET
9 July 2005Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestCEMETARY FIRE
7 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestDAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newaygo 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 Croton: 2 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
K & V Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
K & V PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Newaygo County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Croton in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2014FloodCroton$4,000,000Four hundred and three homes were impacted by flooding along the Muskegon River as a result of melting of a significant snow cover and significant rainfall on April 12. Significant damage was also incurred to area roads. Governor Synyder declared Newaygo county to be in a state of disaster.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCroton$50,000Trees were blown down county wide and Croton was especially hard hit.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCroton$15,000Several trees were blown down.
January 2008HailCroton-One inch diameter hail was measured 7 miles east of Newaygo.
July 2008HailCroton-An amateur radio operator reported one inch diameter hail near Croton.
June 1997HailCroton-A trained National Weather Service spotter at Croton Dam reported nickle-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Newaygo 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
Riverview0.8 miles12
Croton Heights1.8 miles12
Tift Corner3.6 miles12
Oxbow3.6 miles12
Big Prairie5.6 miles13
Oxbow Park5.7 miles13
Big Bend7.2 miles13
Ensley Center7.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 624131. 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.