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Edenville, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Edenville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48628. It stands on Tobacco River. The Survey maps it on the Edenville quadrangle. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

Edenville within Midland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

50 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Edenville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
30 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 10
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 08
27 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 15
10 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 13
2 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Midland 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 Edenville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Riverside Brick&Tile Co Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Midland County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edenville in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 2020Flash FloodEdenville$100,000,000The failure of Edenville Dam lead to the failure of the Sanford Dam downstream and historic flooding along the Tittabawassee River as the river stage at Midland reached 35.05 feet on May 20th. Widespread homes and businesses suffered damage. Two bridges were washed away and the highway U.S. 10 bridge was also damaged.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindEdenville$500,000Numerous large trees down. Boats flipped over on Wixon Lake.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindEdenville$75,000Trees and power lines were blown. The old Gransden building on M-30 lost part of its roof. A tree fell on a truck in Hope Township. A barn roof was partially blown off causing flat tires to a few motorists. One tree fell on a home.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEdenville$50,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindEdenville$10,000no account filed
May 2020FloodEdenville-The flooding from the failure of the Edenville and Sanford Dams was slow to recede, with road closures persisting for days.
June 2008HailEdenville-no account filed
July 2007HailEdenville-no account filed
May 2001HailEdenville-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindEdenville-no account filed
June 1998HailEdenville-no account filed
June 1998HailEdenville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Midland 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
Hope3.3 miles10
Wrights (historical)3.4 miles11
Francis Grove5.4 miles13
Curtis5.5 miles11
Bombay7.3 miles13
North Bradley8.4 miles13
Alamando8.6 miles15
Sanford8.7 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on EdenvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5337030The 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 625353. 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.