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Herron, Michigan

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Wilson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49744. The Survey maps it on the Lachine quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Herron within Alpena County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Herron between 1992 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 July 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use8.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPENA 02 - BALER FIRE
6 June 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPENA 0008
24 June 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPENA 18 - BLUE TIP STRIKER
22 June 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPENA 19 - BLUE TIP STRIKER 2
22 June 2015Arson/incendiarism2.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPENA 20 - BLUE TIP STRIKER 3
22 June 1995Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alpena County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Herron in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2004: 2 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
August 2004HailHerron-no account filed
August 1996HailHerron-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alpena 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
McHarg2.0 miles8
Paxton2.8 miles8
Emerson Station2.9 miles7
Lachine5.2 miles7
Spratt5.5 miles7
Flanders5.9 miles7
Long Rapids8.1 miles7
Alpena Junction10.4 miles8

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 Q136352792The 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 628148. 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.