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Freidberger, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Austin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48475. It stands on Flannery Drain. The Survey maps it on the Argyle quadrangle.

Freidberger within Sanilac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Freidberger between 1996 and 2007, burning about 164 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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 September 2003Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined116 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMINDEN CITY MUCK FIRE 03
5 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 May 2001Fireworks40 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 1996Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanilac County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Freidberger: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Sanilac County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wyers Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sanilac County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freidberger in 1 storm report in 2009: 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
May 2009HailFreidberger-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sanilac 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
Austin Center1.1 miles10
Cumber3.2 miles10
Tyre3.8 miles9
Argyle4.2 miles10
Peatville5.4 miles9
Wickware6.5 miles8
Laing7.1 miles10
Palms7.9 miles9

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 Q122561771The 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 626465. 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.