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Dixboro, Michigan

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Superior Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48105. The Survey maps it on the Ann Arbor East quadrangle.

Dixboro within Washtenaw County

On record in Dixboro

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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 Dixboro between 2018 and 2019, burning about 23 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural2
Smoking1
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 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANN ARBOR FD 751468 - 2019
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALEM TOWNSHIP FD 190379 - 2019
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALEM TOWNSHIP FD 190403 - 2019
12 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 19652 - 2019
26 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUPERIOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000516 - 2019
24 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUPERIOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000502 - 2019
9 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANN ARBOR FD 0813263 - 2018
6 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANN ARBOR FD 0812958 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washtenaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Dixboro: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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
Kruse Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Liberty Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
O E Gooding & Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Washtenaw Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washtenaw County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dixboro in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 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
May 2014Thunderstorm WindDixboro$5,000Numerous large trees reported down on wires.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDixboro-Substantial tree damage with numerous large trees blown down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDixboro-A pine tree and other tree limbs were blown down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindDixboro-A spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindDixboro-A 2 foot diameter tree was reported blown down.
July 1997HailDixboro-no account filed

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
Frain Lake2.4 miles24
Geddes3.2 miles22
Superior3.5 miles22
Emery3.6 miles22
Northfield4.3 miles22
Ann Arbor4.7 miles22
Worden5.2 miles19
Ypsilanti5.4 miles20

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 Q122590582The 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 624709. 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.