BlockFairfax, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Colon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49040. It lies near Colon Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Colon quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Colon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Fairfax between 2018 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 3 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 use | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLON FIRE/RESCUE 259 - 2019 |
| 23 May 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLON FIRE/RESCUE 136 - 2019 |
| 11 May 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLON FIRE/RESCUE 0000126 - 2018 |
| 29 April 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLON FIRE/RESCUE 0000114 - 2018 |
| 15 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLON FIRE/RESCUE 098 - 2019 |
| 14 March 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLON FIRE/RESCUE 078 - 2019 |
| 13 March 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLON FIRE/RESCUE 052 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2024Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairfax in 1 storm report in 2024: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Hail | Fairfax | $15,000 | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1624521. 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.
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.