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Elmwood, Michigan

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Elmwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48726. The Survey maps it on the Ellington quadrangle.

Elmwood within Tuscola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Elmwood between 1995 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGAGETOWN-ELMWOOD TWP FD 19F1063 - 2019
17 August 2018Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTUSCOLA 02
14 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTUSCOLA 01 - CASS CITY REKINDLE
12 August 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGAGETOWN-ELMWOOD TWP FD 20F0709 - 2020
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELKLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000048 - 2018
3 April 2010Debris and open burning70 acresOttawa National Wildlife Refuge4/3/2010
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELKLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000044 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscola County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Elmwood: 5 producers. All of them 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
Schwaderer Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tuckeys Ready Mix and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tuscola County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tuscola County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tuscola County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tuscola County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmwood in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindElmwood$2,000A large tree was blown down, along with several wires.
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Elmwood-Multiple photos and reports of a brief landspot. No damage occurred.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindElmwood-A tree was reported down.

Every storm recorded in Tuscola 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
Ellington2.9 miles8
Colwood4.1 miles8
Gagetown5.4 miles8
Cass City5.9 miles8
Huntsville Park6.3 miles8
Deford6.9 miles8
Colling6.9 miles9
Dayton8.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617542. 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.