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Leonidas, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Leonidas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49066. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leonidas quadrangle. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Leonidas within St. Joseph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Leonidas between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 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
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
9 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLON FIRE/RESCUE 259 - 2019
11 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLON FIRE/RESCUE 0000126 - 2018
29 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLON FIRE/RESCUE 0000114 - 2018
15 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLON FIRE/RESCUE 098 - 2019
14 March 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLON FIRE/RESCUE 078 - 2019
3 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEONIDAS VFD 94 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Joseph County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Leonidas: 2 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cole Brothers Contractors PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cole Brothers Contractors PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Joseph County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leonidas in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 hail, 2 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
May 2024HailLeonidas$40,000Photo on Twitter, X, of 4 inch hail.
May 2024HailLeonidas$30,000Pictures of tennis ball size hail.
October 1996Thunderstorm WindLeonidas$10,000no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindLeonidas-A trained spotter reported numerous trees were blown down.
April 2016HailLeonidas-no account filed
May 2012HailLeonidas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Joseph 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
Factoryville3.1 miles14
Colon4.7 miles10
Fairfax4.7 miles10
Mendon5.3 miles14
Wasepi8.1 miles11
Nottawa8.8 miles11
Findley8.9 miles10
Parkville10.4 miles15

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 Q118211178The 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 1624673. 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.