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Loxley, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Roscommon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48629. The Survey maps it on the Houghton Lake quadrangle.

Loxley within Roscommon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

48 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Loxley between 1993 and 2020, burning about 415 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
18 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE TOWNSHIP VFD 0292019 - 2019
9 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 05 - WACO RD.
5 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 01 - CAMBRIDGE RD
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON TOWNSHIP FD 0000092 - 2020
4 July 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2009Arson/incendiarism21 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 16
15 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roscommon County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Loxley: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
N.Houghton Lake Clay SampleFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Jess Stanley Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Roscommon County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Roscommon County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Roscommon County

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loxley in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2014Flash FloodLoxley$60,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLoxley$15,000Around a hundred trees were knocked down near US-127 and Old 27 at the Roscommon and Clare County line.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLoxley$4,000Central dispatch reports trees down on top of powerlines near Old US-27 and W Emery Rd. Time estimated via radar.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLoxley$2,000Several trees were downed along US-127 at mile marker 184.
June 2021HailLoxley-Time estimated via radar.
August 2017HailLoxley-no account filed
June 2012HailLoxley-no account filed
July 2008HailLoxley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roscommon 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
Houghton Lake3.5 miles13
Houghton Lake Heights4.1 miles13
Nellsville4.6 miles13
Houghton Point7.3 miles13
Michelson7.9 miles12
Prudenville7.9 miles10
Meads Landing9.4 miles12
Sharps Corners12.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2104133. 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.