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Lyon Manor, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lyon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48653. It lies near Flynn Island. The Survey maps it on the Lyon Manor quadrangle.

Lyon Manor within Roscommon 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Lyon Manor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 118 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking5
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
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
10 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGERRISH TOWNSHIP FIRE AND EMS 19414 - 2019
7 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use16 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2001Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2004Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDORT 2 - CRAWFORD
25 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDORT 1 - CRAWFORD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roscommon County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lyon Manor: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. 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
Halliday Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Halliday Sand and Gravel MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Roscommon County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Steele Brothers Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Roscommon County

Storms near this place

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyon Manor in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 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
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLyon Manor$40,000About 35 large trees were downed.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindLyon Manor$18,000Several trees were downed by thunderstorm winds south of Higgins Lake. An oak tree fell on top of a mobile home along County Road 104, just west of Reserve Road. The mobile home was moderately damaged.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLyon Manor$4,000Trees were knocked over and power lines downed at Townline Road and West Higgins Lake Drive.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLyon Manor$3,000County dispatch reports multiple trees down across Roscommon county.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLyon Manor$3,000Several trees were downed along US-127, near the northwest shore of Higgins Lake.
June 2008HailLyon Manor-Nickel hail fell in and west of South Higgins Lake State Park.
October 2007HailLyon Manor-Quarter sized hail near the intersection of US-127 and County Road 104.
August 2015HailLyon Manor-no account filed
May 2013HailLyon Manor-no account filed
July 2013HailLyon Manor-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
Hillcrest1.6 miles12
Higgins Lake2.4 miles12
Sharps Corners4.2 miles11
Meads Landing5.0 miles12
Tent City5.0 miles14
Houghton Point6.2 miles13
Michelson7.7 miles12
Roscommon8.4 miles10

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 Q122555579The 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 631243. 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.