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Delta Center, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Delta Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48917. The Survey maps it on the Dimondale quadrangle.

Delta Center within Eaton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

42 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Delta Center between 2018 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
26 September 2020Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWINDSOR TOWNSHIP EMERGENCY SERVICES 150 - 2020
18 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING FD 0016391 - 2019
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1910940 - 2019
21 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING FD 0014536 - 2019
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING FD 0014406 - 2019
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1910689 - 2019
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1826769 - 2018
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1826744 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eaton 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 Delta Center: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Pryor Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Eaton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delta Center in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindDelta Center-One business sustained structural damage with one car damaged due to blowing debris from the business.

Every storm recorded in Eaton 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
Waverly2.4 miles14
Delta Mills2.8 miles11
Bretton Woods2.8 miles14
Millett2.8 miles14
Grand Ledge4.8 miles11
Whaley Drain5.1 miles14
Dimondale5.6 miles14
West Windsor5.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 624532. 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.