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Laporte, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ingersoll Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48623. It stands on Fleming Drain. The Survey maps it on the Hemlock quadrangle.

Laporte within Midland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

30 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Laporte between 1996 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning4
Other causes1
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
7 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHOMAS TOWNSHIP FD 480 - 2019
7 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTITTABAWASSEE TWP FD 439 - 2018
23 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTITTABAWASSEE TWP FD 441 - 2020
23 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHOMAS TOWNSHIP FD 512 - 2019
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTITTABAWASSEE TWP FD 436 - 2020
12 July 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTITTABAWASSEE TWP FD 358 - 2020
1 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTITTABAWASSEE TWP FD 382 - 2018
26 June 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTITTABAWASSEE TWP FD 372 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Midland County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laporte in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLaporte-Numerous trees reported down.
June 2005HailLaporte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Midland 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
Lockport3.8 miles13
Poseyville4.4 miles13
Mapleton4.9 miles13
Bullock Creek6.8 miles13
Dean6.8 miles13
Golden7.9 miles13
Midland8.8 miles13
Ryan9.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 630158. 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.