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Kilmanagh, Michigan

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sebewaing Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48759. The Survey maps it on the Bay Port East quadrangle. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Kilmanagh within Huron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kilmanagh between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWINSOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000454 - 2018
13 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRHAVEN TWP FD 2020011 - 2020
25 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOWENDALE FD 0102019 - 2019
28 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSEBEWAING TOWNSHIP FD 0011-19 - 2019
16 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWINSOR TOWNSHIP FD 2019046 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Huron 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 Kilmanagh: 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
Reinhold Clay PitClayPast Producer
Windsor Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Huron County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kilmanagh in 2 storm reports in 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
August 2015Tornado (EF1)Kilmanagh$50,000A tornado touched down 0.25 miles west of the intersection of Sebewaing and Shebeon roads. The tornado traveled along or just north of Sebewaing road for its lifespan as it moved eastward. After the tornado touched down it quickly intensified to EF1 with maximum winds of 90 mph. The roof and walls of a barn were destroyed, along with tree damage observed. And tree damage. Damage in Owendale included destruction of outbuildings, siding peeled off a garage, as well as trees snapped and uprooted. There was also a small warehouse with westward-facing garage doors blown in, a cinder block wall blown out, and uplifted roof. The tornado lifted just north of the intersection of Sebewaing and Elkton roads.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindKilmanagh-Trees reported blown down.

Every storm recorded in Huron 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
Rose Island4.4 miles9
Weale4.4 miles9
Valley Island4.5 miles9
Linkville4.8 miles8
Bach5.0 miles8
Owendale5.1 miles8
Sebewaing5.3 miles9
Bay Port6.5 miles8

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.

Wikipedia article on KilmanaghAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6407968The 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 629666. 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.