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Glennie, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Curtis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48737. The Survey maps it on the Glennie quadrangle. It stands 1,017 feet above sea level.

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Glennie within Alcona County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Glennie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 180 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
6 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestF 30
4 August 2016Recreation and ceremony26 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestLORENZ
31 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestDEERLAND
19 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestHUNTERS
19 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSHEEP RANCH
16 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestDEERLAND RD
5 July 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCURTIS TOWNSHIP FD 0000011 - 2019
5 July 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestDE MOTT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alcona County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Glennie: 1 producer. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
State Pit #232Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Alcona County

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glennie in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2016: 13 hail, 10 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
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGlennie$7,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindGlennie$4,000Numerous trees were downed.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGlennie$2,000Tree downed onto power lines.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGlennie-Trees were downed.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindGlennie-Several trees were downed.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindGlennie-Numerous trees down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGlennie-Strong straight-line winds downed numerous trees of up to 8 - 12" in diameter in Glennie Park. One mobile home was destroyed by a falling tree.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGlennie-Strong winds downed trees along routes M-65...M-72 and F-30.
July 1994HailGlennie-A former Nationa Weather Service employee reported dime-size hail.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindGlennie-Eight trees, 7 to 15 inches in diameter, were uprooted by very strong thunderstorm winds. Minor damage occurred to two travel trailers and shed 6- x 8-foot sign destroyed.
October 2016HailGlennie-no account filed
June 2008HailGlennie-no account filed
July 2006HailGlennie-no account filed
July 2004HailGlennie-no account filed
July 2003HailGlennie-no account filed
May 2002HailGlennie-no account filed
May 2002HailGlennie-no account filed
August 2000HailGlennie-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindGlennie-no account filed
May 1998HailGlennie-no account filed
May 1998HailGlennie-no account filed
July 1997HailGlennie-no account filed
July 1996HailGlennie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alcona 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
Cheviers0.8 miles11
Wallace3.8 miles11
Bryant4.0 miles11
Kurtz4.3 miles11
Curtisville7.5 miles9
Barton City10.6 miles11
Curran11.5 miles9
Alvin15.2 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on GlennieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122571655The 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 626886. 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.