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Horton, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49246. The Survey maps it on the Spring Arbor quadrangle. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.

Horton within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

22 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Horton between 2018 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 8 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 use10
Natural8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
16 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRING ARBOR FD 550 - 2020
12 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHANOVER TOWNSHIP FD 148 - 2019
5 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRING ARBOR FD 456 - 2020
3 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHANOVER TOWNSHIP FD 152 - 2020
2 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRING ARBOR FD 0000357 - 2018
4 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRING ARBOR FD 300 - 2019
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIBERTY TOWNSHIP FD 99 - 2019
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMMIT TOWNSHIP FD 0000843 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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 Horton: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Spring Arbor Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zenith Portland Cement Co Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horton in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 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 2024Thunderstorm WindHorton$2,000Several large tree limbs were snapped off.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindHorton$2,000One tree was blown down near the intersection of Reynolds and Horton roads three miles southeast of Spring Arbor.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindHorton-Several large tree limbs were blown down near Brooklyn and Horton in southern Jackson county.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Hanover3.9 miles11
Spring Arbor4.2 miles11
South Jackson4.8 miles19
Stoney Point6.0 miles11
Concord6.9 miles11
Sandstone7.0 miles12
Liberty7.0 miles18
Pulaski7.1 miles11

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 Q136348570The 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 628637. 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.