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Kenton, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Duncan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49967. It stands on Spargo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kenton quadrangle.

Kenton within Houghton 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

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Kenton between 2000 and 2016, burning about 12 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
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
27 June 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOttawa National ForestJUMBO PIT
29 May 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOttawa National ForestSPARROW RAPIDS
24 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresOttawa National ForestSOGGY
21 May 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOttawa National ForestMILL
2 May 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOttawa National ForestJUMBO
3 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresOttawa National ForestSINK HOLE FIRE
19 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOttawa National ForestTC
19 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOttawa National ForestRIVER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenton in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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
July 2006Thunderstorm WindKenton$5,000Many large trees down, one on hood of truck.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindKenton$5,000Many large trees down
August 2022Thunderstorm WindKenton$1,000Michigan DOT reported eastbound and westbound lanes of Highway M-28 were closed in Kenton due to a downed tree on the highway. The report was relayed via social media.
October 2012Heavy RainKenton-The USGS rain gauge at Kenton measured 2.37 inches of rainfall during the event.
May 2002HailKenton-Three quarter inch diameter hail was reported.
April 2002HailKenton-Nickel sized hail was reported.
June 2002HailKenton-Penny sized hail was reported.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindKenton-Fourteen trees were blown down along the roadway.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindKenton-Numerous trees were blown down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindKenton-Numerous trees down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindKenton-16 inch diameter tree downed.
July 2006HailKenton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Houghton 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
Frost8.3 miles12
Sidnaw9.9 miles12
Pori13.8 miles13
White19.7 miles12
Nisula20.0 miles12
Alston20.9 miles12
Hazel23.0 miles13
Winona26.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1620413. 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.