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Delhi Mills, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Scio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48103. It stands on Honey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ann Arbor West quadrangle.

Delhi Mills within Washtenaw County

On record in Delhi Mills

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

23 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Delhi Mills between 2018 and 2020, burning about 32 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 use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSCIO TOWNSHIP FD 0821457 - 2018
28 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSCIO TOWNSHIP FD 0823523 - 2018
6 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSCIO TOWNSHIP FD 0818487 - 2018
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANN ARBOR FD 0818413 - 2018
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEXTER AREA FD 0000629 - 2018
30 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000445 - 2018
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEXTER AREA FD 0000695 - 2018
22 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEXTER AREA FD 0000688 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washtenaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Delhi Mills: 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Emery. 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
Ervin Indus Inc--Ann Arbor, Mich.EmeryProducer
Dunston Pit No 8Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Killins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
O E Gooding & Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
O E Gooding & Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pleasant Hills Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Washtenaw County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Washtenaw County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washtenaw County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delhi Mills in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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 2023HailDelhi Mills$500,000no account filed
September 2015Thunderstorm WindDelhi Mills$30,000Wires reported blown down onto house, which caught fire.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindDelhi Mills-A large tree limb was reported down.
June 2015Flash FloodDelhi Mills-Multiple reports of flooded and impassable roads.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindDelhi Mills-Multiple trees reported down between Dexter and Ann Arbor.
June 2010Flash FloodDelhi Mills-Water was reported covering M-14 and US23.

Every storm recorded in Washtenaw 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
Scio1.5 miles17
Foster1.9 miles17
Barton Hills2.3 miles17
Dexter4.1 miles19
Webster4.5 miles19
Northfield4.6 miles22
Ann Arbor6.1 miles22
Hudson Mills6.8 miles19

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 Q122590016The 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 624528. 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.