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Delano, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Whitney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48703. The Survey maps it on the Au Gres quadrangle.

Delano within Arenac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Delano between 1995 and 2020, burning about 101 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
22 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 06
8 July 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTWINING-TURNER-MASON FD 0000014 - 2019
15 May 1995Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUGRES-SIMS FD 0000012 - 2020
28 April 2003Debris and open burning52 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUGRES-SIMS FD 0000019 - 2019
19 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 03 - BLUE CAMPER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arenac County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Delano: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. 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
Duck Lake Limestone QuarryGranitePast Producer
Arenac Co Pit # 1 Re GlancyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
C & D QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Glancy Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Iosco Co Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Van Dusen Stone CoStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Arenac County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delano in 1 storm report in 1996: 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
August 1996HailDelano-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Arenac 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
Birchwood Shores2.2 miles11
Hammell Beach2.5 miles11
Glenwood Beach3.1 miles11
Whitestone Point3.3 miles11
Wagner Beach3.3 miles11
Harmon City Heights3.8 miles11
Santiago4.0 miles11
Huron Heights4.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617521. 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.