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Isabella, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Garden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49878. It stands on Fishdam River. The Survey maps it on the Garden Corners quadrangle.

Isabella within Delta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Isabella between 1998 and 2019, burning about 16 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Other causes2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 2005Naturalunder an acreHiawatha National ForestRED GREEN
4 August 1998Other causes1.0 acresHiawatha National ForestBARN
27 July 2019Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREST AREA
12 June 2004Arson/incendiarism6.8 acresHiawatha National ForestWESTBRANCH
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGARDEN TOWNSHIP VFD 0201811 - 2018
7 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresHiawatha National ForestLL FIRE
18 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestRIVER FIRE
12 May 2017Other causesunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLOG CABIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Isabella in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2012: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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 2012Heavy RainIsabella-The observer near Garden Corners measured 2.01 inches of rainfall.
June 2012Heavy RainIsabella-Two inches of rain was reported from a home weather station near Garden Corners.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindIsabella-Nine inch diameter trees were blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindIsabella-Numerous trees down.

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Garden Corners3.7 miles10
Nahma4.9 miles9
Nahma Junction5.4 miles10
Saint Jacques7.3 miles10
Garden9.0 miles10
Ogontz10.0 miles9
Devils Corner11.0 miles9
Fayette12.8 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617642. 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.

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.