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Lodi, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Orange Township. The Survey maps it on the Kalkaska quadrangle.

Lodi within Kalkaska County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Lodi between 1992 and 2018, burning about 70 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLDSPRINGS-EXCELSIOR FIRE/RESCUE 1820889 - 2018
14 August 2014Fireworks1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALKASKA 0006
10 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 June 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 June 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalkaska County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lodi in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLodi$4,000Several trees were downed.
April 2024HailLodi-Quarter sized hail near M-66 and Prairie Lane.

Every storm recorded in Kalkaska 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
McGee2.4 miles14
Spencer3.2 miles14
Crofton4.0 miles15
Giddings4.0 miles14
Millers Corners4.0 miles14
Deibert4.9 miles14
O'Neil5.4 miles14
South Boardman5.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617686. 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.