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Fairfield, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49221. It stands on Mitchell Drain. The Survey maps it on the Jasper quadrangle.

Fairfield within Lenawee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Fairfield between 2018 and 2020, burning about 10 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 use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning1

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
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON TOWNSHIP FD 0001348 - 2018
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPALMYRA TOWNSHIP FD 134 - 2020
30 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON TOWNSHIP FD 0001489 - 2018
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPALMYRA TOWNSHIP FD 131 - 2020
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON TOWNSHIP FD 0001419 - 2018
18 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON TOWNSHIP FD 0001417 - 2018
13 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000052 - 2019
12 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000049 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fairfield: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Adrian Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Packard Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Ruff's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Stamm Brothers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairfield in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2006: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1999Thunderstorm WindFairfield$7,000no account filed
May 2006LightningFairfield$2,000Lightning struck a Consumers Energy substation in Fairfield, knocking out power to 4400 people in Adrian.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindFairfield-Law enforcement reported numerous large trees down.
June 2006HailFairfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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
Jasper1.3 miles10
Ogden3.3 miles11
Madison Center3.3 miles10
Sand Creek3.3 miles10
Ridgeville4.0 miles10
Weston4.2 miles10
Friendly Village of Adrian4.9 miles12
Ogden Center5.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 625749. 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.