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Hoxeyville, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in South Branch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49601. The Survey maps it on the Hoxeyville quadrangle.

Hoxeyville within Wexford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Hoxeyville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 294 acres in total. None 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 burning11
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2

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
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestDOUBLE NICKLE
5 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestPETERSON BRIDGE
5 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestRAVINE RD FIRE
19 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresHuron-Manistee National Forest48TH FIRE
8 August 2013Debris and open burning2.5 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestFOUNDATION
13 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestWENDYS LOOP
30 July 1995Debris and open burning2.1 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestDOUBLE BOGEY
25 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National Forest16TH FAIRWAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wexford 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 Hoxeyville: 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
Wexford County Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wexford County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoxeyville in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2008Flash FloodHoxeyville$750,000Widespread flooding developed in southern Wexford County, with isolated flooding in the north, thanks to three to six inches of rainfall in a few hours either side of midnight. Numerous roads were washed out, especially on the northwest side of Lake Cadillac, and near and north of Mesick. One hundred and fifty homes were impacted by high water.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindHoxeyville-Trees and power lines were downed by the wind near Hoxeyville.

Every storm recorded in Wexford 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
Garletts Corner5.1 miles14
Harrietta8.1 miles12
Boon8.9 miles12
Axin8.9 miles13
Millersville10.0 miles12
Yuma10.8 miles12
Benson11.6 miles12
Hobart14.1 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 Q122550304The 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 1620263. 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.