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Hamburg, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Hamburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48139. The Survey maps it on the Hamburg quadrangle.

Hamburg within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

29 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Hamburg between 2003 and 2019, burning about 39 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
3 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution6.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWASHTENAW 01
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 19906 - 2019
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000485 - 2019
28 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000968 - 2018
17 July 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000915 - 2018
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000897 - 2018
29 June 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000775 - 2019
3 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston 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 Hamburg: 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bennett No 12 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamburg in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
July 2007Thunderstorm WindHamburg$25,000A local Television station reported dozens of trees down. One tree fell through the roof of the Livingston County Wildlife and Conservation Club. No one was injured. Total property damages were estimated at roughly $25K.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHamburg$5,000Trees and power lines reported down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHamburg$5,000Trees and power lines reported down.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindHamburg$1,000Law enforcement reported that several trees and power lines were blown down in thunderstorm winds.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHamburg-Trees and wires reporte down.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindHamburg-Multiple trees and power lines down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindHamburg-Multiple trees and power lines reported down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHamburg-Trees were reported down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindHamburg-Several reports of large tree branches down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHamburg-Trees and power lines reported blown down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindHamburg-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs near Hamburg.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindHamburg-Firefighters reported through Central Dispatch that trees were knocked down by thunderstorm winds in Hamburg Township.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHamburg-The emergency manager reported trees and wires down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindHamburg-Large trees were blown down.
April 1994HailHamburg-A spotter reported 0.75 inch hail in the town of Hamburg.
July 2019HailHamburg-no account filed
July 2019HailHamburg-no account filed
May 2004HailHamburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Lakeland2.5 miles19
Whitmore Lake3.1 miles19
Parishfield3.6 miles19
Pettysville4.0 miles19
Rushton5.6 miles19
Brighton5.7 miles13
Green Oak6.3 miles19
Chilson6.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 627670. 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.