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Lee, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Lee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49450. It stands on Spring Brook. The Survey maps it on the Pullman quadrangle.

Lee within Allegan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

47 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Lee between 1993 and 2020, burning about 140 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 were 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
Equipment and vehicle use15
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
24 July 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000055 - 2018
6 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000059 - 2018
6 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEGAN 03
6 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenance4.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000026 - 2018
5 May 2005Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lee in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
December 2007Thunderstorm WindLee$50,000Trees and power lines were blown down across Allegan county.
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Lee-An EF-0 landspout tornado developed from a weak thunderstorm. No signficant damage was reported.
August 2017HailLee-Local area law enforcement reported that an isolated severe thunderstorm produced hail up to one and three quarters inches in diameter.

Every storm recorded in Allegan 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
Pullman2.3 miles11
Sherman Park2.9 miles11
Bakersville2.9 miles11
Bravo4.3 miles14
Leisure4.3 miles11
Kibbie5.6 miles11
Spring Grove5.6 miles14
Pearl6.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617676. 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.