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Eureka, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Greenbush Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48879. The Survey maps it on the Saint Johns North quadrangle. 233 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

Eureka within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Eureka between 2018 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
29 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOHNS FD 0003742 - 2018
2 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOHNS FD 0003928 - 2019
3 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOHNS FD 0003690 - 2018
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAPLE RAPIDS VFD 23 - 2020
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOHNS FD 0003687 - 2018
1 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use61 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRATIOT 01
24 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLEY VFD 0019040 - 2019
12 January 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAPLE RAPIDS VFD 3 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton 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 Eureka: 4 producers, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
John Strause Clay ProspectClayProspect
American Excavating PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Karber Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Martin Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Standard Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 3 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindEureka$50,000Numerous trees were blown down across Clinton county.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEureka$10,000There were six reports of downed trees across roads and several clusters of power outages north of St. John's.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEureka$2,500Several large tree branches downed in Eureka.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Duplain5.1 miles14
Elsie6.8 miles14
Saint Johns7.5 miles14
Shepardsville8.3 miles14
Maple Rapids9.4 miles14
Ovid10.1 miles14
Price12.2 miles14
Fowler13.9 miles14

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 EurekaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108415754The 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 625657. 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.