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Kimball, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Kimball Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48074. It stands on Big Creek. The Survey maps it on the Smiths Creek quadrangle.

Kimball within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Kimball between 1994 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKIMBALL TOWNSHIP FD 512 - 2019
17 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKIMBALL TOWNSHIP FD 458 - 2018
5 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORT HURON TOWNSHIP FD 476 - 2020
9 May 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFORT GRATIOT FD 1800484 - 2018
9 April 1994Smoking12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKIMBALL TOWNSHIP FD 200 - 2019
27 April 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARYSVILLE FD 0000520 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kimball: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Salt. 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
Amcord Cement Co. PitClayProducer
Morton Salt Co--Port Huron, Mich.SaltPast Producer
Smock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kimball in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 2 hail, 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
November 2019Thunderstorm WindKimball-Trees reported blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindKimball-A trained spotter reported large tree limbs down, as well as shingles off a roof.
July 2012HailKimball-no account filed
July 1999HailKimball-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
West Tappan1.8 miles12
Sparlingville2.4 miles12
Wadhams3.0 miles12
Smiths Creek3.2 miles12
Thornton3.2 miles12
Tappan4.4 miles15
Marysville4.7 miles15
South Park5.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1624643. 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.