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Gordonville, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Mount Haley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48640. The Survey maps it on the Gordonville quadrangle.

Gordonville within Midland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

69 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Gordonville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. 3 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 burning27
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2001Fireworks2.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2001Fireworksunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2001Recreation and ceremony5.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOMER TOWNSHIP FD 0000183 - 2018
14 June 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 19
8 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEE TOWNSHIP FD 212 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Midland County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gordonville in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 3 hail, 3 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 2021Thunderstorm WindGordonville-A tree was reported down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGordonville-Numerous power lines down.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindGordonville-Tree reported down.
April 2020HailGordonville-no account filed
June 2004HailGordonville-no account filed
June 2004HailGordonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Midland 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
Floyd2.6 miles13
Dice Corners3.1 miles13
Olson5.1 miles13
Saint Elmo5.4 miles13
Teeterville5.6 miles12
Porter6.2 miles13
Ryan6.5 miles12
Bullock Creek6.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617591. 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.