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Harrisburg, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49403. The Survey maps it on the Casnovia quadrangle.

Harrisburg within Ottawa 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Harrisburg between 1992 and 2019, burning about 48 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRAVENNA AREA FD 0000140 - 2018
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000070 - 2018
16 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRAVENNA AREA FD 0000139 - 2019
6 May 2018Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000051 - 2018
31 May 1992Debris and open burning5.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000048 - 2018
28 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRAVENNA AREA FD 0000083 - 2019
11 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Harrisburg: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 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
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Muskegon Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottawa County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yerington Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrisburg in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2008: 3 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHarrisburg1 killedLaw enforcement near Ravenna reported that a woman was killed when a tree fell on her as she was walking in Chester township.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindHarrisburg$10,000Several trees and power lines were blown down by estimated wind gusts of 60 mph.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindHarrisburg$5,000Large branches in bunches of trees were blown down two miles east of Harrisburg.

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Conklin4.4 miles13
Wright6.6 miles14
Reno8.3 miles14
Herrington9.4 miles14
Coopersville9.4 miles13
Dennison10.2 miles13
Marne11.0 miles14
Lamont12.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 627849. 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.