BlockDiffin, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Limestone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49891. The Survey maps it on the Diffin quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1932 USGS Rock NE quadrangle1:31680
- 1958 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rock quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Gwinn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Diffin quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Diffin between 1994 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 2003 | Debris and open burning | 19 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MATHIS TOWNSHIP FD 0000720 - 2020 |
| 28 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MATHIS TOWNSHIP FD 0000519 - 2019 |
| 10 April 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Diffin in 1 storm report in 2015: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2015 | Hail | Diffin | - | Hail occurred along Highway US-41 between Trenary and Kiva. Report was relayed via picture on social media, and time was estimated from radar. |
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.
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 Q122571430 | The 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 1617526. 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.
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.