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Farrandville, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Vienna Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48420. It stands on Benjamin Run. The Survey maps it on the Clio quadrangle.

Farrandville within Genesee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

30 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Farrandville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 30 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural3
Debris and open burning2

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
5 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 0000163 - 2019
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 191 - 2020
25 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 205 - 2020
15 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 199 - 2020
21 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 178 - 2020
11 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 166 - 2020
4 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP FD 275 - 2020
30 July 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 155 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farrandville in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 5 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 2013Thunderstorm WindFarrandville$15,000Thunderstorm winds blew down one old garage along with numerous trees.|A camper was also over turned, along with extensive tree damage. The damage path extended along and north of Jenning Road Just south of Lake Road toward North Saginaw Road.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindFarrandville-Multiple reports of trees and wires down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindFarrandville-Multiple trees were reported blown down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindFarrandville-A large tree was reported blown down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindFarrandville-Trees were uprooted and 8 inch diameter tree was snapped in half.

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
Clio1.2 miles16
Pine Run1.3 miles16
Thetford Center4.7 miles16
Mount Morris5.5 miles16
Beecher7.4 miles16
Genesee8.1 miles16
Montrose8.9 miles14
McGrew Junction9.0 miles16

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 Q122566236The 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 625847. 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.