Lenawee Junction, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Palmyra Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49268. The Survey maps it on the Tecumseh South quadrangle.

Lenawee Junction within Lenawee 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.

1939 USGS Blissfield quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Blissfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Tecumseh South quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Lenawee Junction between 2018 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	4

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
29 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ADRIAN CITY FD 0003644 - 2019
22 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TECUMSEH FD 676 - 2020
9 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MADISON TOWNSHIP FD 0001348 - 2018
30 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MADISON TOWNSHIP FD 0001489 - 2018
3 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PALMYRA TOWNSHIP FD 131 - 2020
19 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MADISON TOWNSHIP FD 0001419 - 2018
15 July 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ADRIAN CITY FD 0002513 - 2019
14 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RAISIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000313 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Palmyra	1.8 miles	11
Wellsville	3.1 miles	11
Raisin Center	3.1 miles	11
Holloway	3.8 miles	11
Ogden	5.0 miles	11
Adrian	5.0 miles	12
Birdsall	5.1 miles	12
Friendly Village of Adrian	5.4 miles	12

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 Q122598773

The 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 1617679. 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.