Fenton, Michigan

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 10 records

• Benjamin Bangs Houselisted 1982
• Church, Volney-Carlos B. Shotwell Houselisted 1982
• David B. Colwell Houselisted 1982
• Dibbleville-Fentonville Historic Districtlisted 1982
• Fenton Railroad Depotlisted 1983
• Col. J. Hinckley Houselisted 1982
• H.N. Jennings Houselisted 1982
• Edwin Trump Houselisted 1982
• Fenton Seminarylisted 1982
• Vermont House and Fenton Grain Elevatorlisted 1980

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.

• 1920 USGS Holly quadrangle1:62500
• 1922 USGS Holly quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1943 USGS Holly quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Fenton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1985 USGS Pontiac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Fenton between 2010 and 2020, burning about 24 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lake Fenton
• Lakeside
• Bayport Park
• Grand Blanc
• Linden
• Otisville

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fenton: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fenton in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 lightning, 3 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Genesee County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 625893. 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.