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Deerfield Center, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Deerfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48451. The Survey maps it on the Hartland quadrangle.

Deerfield Center within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Deerfield Center between 1993 and 2019, burning about 50 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 use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
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
13 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWELL AREA FD 0000873 - 2018
18 June 2018Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTLAND AREA FD 0000402 - 2018
13 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000209 - 2018
8 May 1993Smoking10 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTLAND AREA FD 0000283 - 2019
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTLAND AREA FD 0000290 - 2018
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Deerfield Center: 3 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
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deerfield Center in 13 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindDeerfield Center$1,000Eighteen inch diameter trees were reported down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindDeerfield Center-Several trees reported blown down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindDeerfield Center-Multiple large trees reported down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindDeerfield Center-Multiple trees reported down.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindDeerfield Center-Multiple trees and large tree limbs down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDeerfield Center-Large tree limbs reported blown down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindDeerfield Center-A tree was reported blown down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindDeerfield Center-A tree was blown onto a house.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindDeerfield Center-Large tree limbs were reported blown down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDeerfield Center-A trained spotter estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust, which downed small tree branches.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindDeerfield Center-Three Small Trees were reported blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindDeerfield Center-A trained spotter measured an 82 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2012HailDeerfield Center-no account filed

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
Deer Creek3.0 miles14
Oak Grove4.4 miles12
Cohoctah4.9 miles14
Parshallville5.1 miles12
Cohoctah Center6.8 miles14
Hartland7.9 miles12
Hallers Corners8.8 miles13
Howell9.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 624497. 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.