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Lovells, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lovells Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49738. The Survey maps it on the Lovells quadrangle.

Lovells within Crawford County

On record in Lovells

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Lovells between 1995 and 2020, burning about 211 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
8 September 2002Fireworks17 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRAWFORD 12 - HIGH BANKS TRAIL
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLOVELLS TOWNSHIP FD 0041850 - 2019
17 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRAWFORD 13 RANGE 44 FIRE
21 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRAWFORD 16
13 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLOVELLS TOWNSHIP FD 0034779 - 2019
25 June 1995Natural10 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000014 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lovells in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 3 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLovells$50,000Numerous trees were downed by strong thunderstorm winds over and around County Route 612.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindLovells$6,000Several large trees were downed, blocking some roads in the Lovells area.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLovells$2,000Reports of trees down from MPING.

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Bucks6.0 miles13
Wildwood8.9 miles13
Babbits Resort11.6 miles13
Five Corners11.7 miles13
Forbush Corner12.0 miles14
Louis Cabin Landing12.6 miles14
Frederic14.5 miles13
Eldorado15.2 miles12

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 Q122562155The 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 631144. 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.