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Hunters Creek, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lapeer Township. It stands on Kintz Creek. The Survey maps it on the Metamora quadrangle.

Hunters Creek within Lapeer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hunters Creek between 2003 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. None 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 use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
31 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMETAMORA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000243 - 2018
23 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELBA TOWNSHIP FD 0000075 - 2019
17 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMETAMORA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000218 - 2019
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMETAMORA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000119 - 2018
23 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMETAMORA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000115 - 2018
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARCADIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000011 - 2018
15 April 2003Equipment and vehicle use15 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMETAMORA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000082 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lapeer County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hunters Creek: 4 producers. 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
Corey and Hartwig Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Metamora Pit and MilSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Parrish Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St Clair County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lapeer County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunters Creek in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2015: 2 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHunters Creek$10,000A barn roof was blown off, along with numerous trees blown down.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindHunters Creek-A tree was reported down.

Every storm recorded in Lapeer 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
Farmers Creek2.9 miles12
Metamora3.1 miles12
Lapeer4.7 miles10
Thornville4.8 miles11
Hadley6.2 miles11
Attica7.4 miles10
Kerr Hill8.2 miles11
Elba8.5 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 628835. 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.