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Hodunk, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49094. It stands on Hog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burlington quadrangle.

Hodunk within Branch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hodunk between 2018 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 3 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 use4
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000044 - 2019
30 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000039 - 2019
19 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLDWATER FD 0000781 - 2018
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000031 - 2018
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000030 - 2018
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLDWATER FD 0000440 - 2018
24 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLDWATER FD 0000408 - 2018
27 March 2019Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000019 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Branch 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 Hodunk: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Peerless Prtlnd Cmnt Co Shale PitClayPast Producer
Waterbury No 1 Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Branch County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hodunk in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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 1996Thunderstorm WindHodunk$10,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHodunk-Estimated 60 mph wind gust.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHodunk-Emergency management officials received several reports of trees down in northern parts of Branch county.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindHodunk-Emergency management officials reported numerous trees down across the northern half of the county.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindHodunk-Emergency management officials reported a 12 inch diameter willow tree was blown down onto Girard Road.
May 2012HailHodunk-no account filed
June 2008HailHodunk-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Branch 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
Girard3.4 miles14
Union City5.3 miles14
Batavia Center5.9 miles10
Coldwater6.1 miles10
Trailtree Village6.3 miles10
Batavia7.3 miles10
Matteson8.5 miles9
Lockwood9.1 miles10

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 Q122553642The 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 628372. 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.