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Lime Creek, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Medina Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49247. It stands on Bennet Drain. The Survey maps it on the Hudson quadrangle.

Lime Creek within Lenawee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Lime Creek between 2018 and 2020, burning about 29 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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
26 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-WALDRON FIRE & AMBULANCE 0000223 - 2019
5 April 2019Natural3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDOVER-HUDSON TOWNSHIP/CLAYTON FD 0000078 - 2019
2 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORENCI FD 0000068 - 2019
26 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-WALDRON FIRE & AMBULANCE 0000108 - 2019
26 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORENCI FD 0000063 - 2019
25 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-WALDRON FIRE & AMBULANCE 0000107 - 2019
23 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUDSON FD 0000042 - 2018
20 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 18024 - 2018

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Munson3.7 miles16
Medina4.6 miles11
Canandaigua5.5 miles11
North Morenci5.6 miles11
Hudson6.3 miles11
Morenci6.7 miles15
Seneca8.3 miles11
Clayton8.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617682. 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.