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Leaton, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Denver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48858. The Survey maps it on the Leaton quadrangle.

Leaton within Isabella County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Leaton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Smoking1

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
29 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMT PLEASANT FD 0000315 - 2019
18 May 1996Smoking20 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHEPHERD TRI-TOWNSHIP FD 0019294 - 2019
17 May 1992Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan AgencyBROADWAY
4 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISABELLA 01
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMT PLEASANT FD 0000289 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isabella County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Leaton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Wademans Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Isabella County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leaton in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2012: 2 hail. 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
March 2012HailLeaton-A trained spotter reported three quarters inch hail northeast of Mt. Pleasant. This was associated with a developing supercell thunderstorm that went on to produce an EF-1 tornado just east of Isabella county.
June 1998HailLeaton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Isabella 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
Jordan1.5 miles15
Delwin2.5 miles15
Country Place Park2.8 miles15
Rosebush3.7 miles15
Wise5.2 miles15
Alembic5.4 miles15
Mount Pleasant5.9 miles15
Vernon Center6.8 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122572302The 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 630247. 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.