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Fair Haven, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Ira Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48023. It stands on Swan Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Baltimore quadrangle. It stands 574 feet above sea level.

Fair Haven within St. Clair County

On record in Fair Haven

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

16 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Fair Haven between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
10 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 453 - 2018
25 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BALTIMORE FD 0000831 - 2019
24 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BALTIMORE FD 579 - 2019
14 June 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 302 - 2018
8 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 266 - 2019
5 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 261 - 2019
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 195 - 2020
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 214 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair 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 Fair Haven: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Engleman's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fair Haven in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2009: 2 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
May 2007Thunderstorm WindFair Haven$1,000A trained spotter measured a 60 MPH wind gust and reported a sign partially blown from a building.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindFair Haven-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Copeland Corner1.7 miles13
Anchorville2.0 miles12
Perch Point2.0 miles13
Starville3.5 miles13
Peters4.7 miles12
Pearl Beach4.7 miles13
Casco5.1 miles13
Pointe aux Tremble5.9 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.

Wikidata item Q136342881The 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 1624519. 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.