BlockLacey, Michigan
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Johnstown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49021. The Survey maps it on the Bedford quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Battle Creek quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Battle Creek quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Battle Creek quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Kalamazoo quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
15 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Lacey between 2003 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2019 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | JOHNSTOWN FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION 0000097 - 2019 |
| 6 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BELLEVUE FD 019-134 - 2019 |
| 12 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 34 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | JOHNSTOWN FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION 0000093 - 2018 |
| 30 March 2005 | Debris and open burning | 8.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lacey: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lacey in 1 storm report in 2019: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Lacey | $20,000 | A National Weather Service storm survey found that an EF-0 tornado struck southern Barry county. The tornado damage path began on Barryville Road about one |quarter mile south of Cloverdale Road and ended on Marshall Road about a quarter mile south of Maple Grove Road. Three barns on one farm were damaged just southeast of the intersection of Barryville and Cloverdale Road and a telephone pole was blown down a few hundred feet northeast of the barns. About a dozen trees were|snapped or uprooted along the path of the tornado. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assyria | 3.7 miles | 19 | |
| Dowling | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Vickery Landing | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Maple Grove | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Banfield | 5.6 miles | 19 | |
| Cedar Creek | 7.5 miles | 12 | |
| Quimby | 8.3 miles | 10 | |
| Morgan | 9.0 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 629927. 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.