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Fairport, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fairbanks Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49835. The Survey maps it on the Fairport quadrangle.

Fairport within Delta County

On record in Fairport

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fairport between 2002 and 2019, burning about 15 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
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
21 June 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGARDEN TOWNSHIP VFD 0201906 - 2019
17 March 2010Debris and open burning13 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAC BAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairport in 1 storm report in 1996: 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 1996HailFairport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Sac Bay2.7 miles9
Fayette6.7 miles9
Devils Corner8.5 miles9
Garden12.0 miles10
Nahma15.2 miles9
Stonington18.3 miles8
Ogontz18.4 miles9
Nahma Junction19.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 625761. 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.