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Hetherton, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 49751. The Survey maps it on the Hetherton quadrangle.

Hetherton within Montmorency County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Hetherton between 1992 and 2019, burning about 40 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
26 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000022 - 2019
4 July 2008Natural1.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTMORENCY 09
20 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVIENNA TOWNSHIP VFD 0000014 - 2018
26 June 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTMORENCY 09
21 June 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 June 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTMORENCY 04
15 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montmorency 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 Hetherton: 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
Black PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montmorency County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hetherton in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 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
July 2004Thunderstorm WindHetherton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montmorency 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
Donnelly3.3 miles16
Bigelow5.5 miles16
Vienna Junction9.5 miles16
Lewiston9.5 miles16
Birchwood Beach10.0 miles16
Garland Village11.1 miles16
Atlanta12.0 miles12
Canada Creek Ranch14.0 miles12

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 Q122546871The 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 1617620. 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.