BlockMacon, Michigan
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Macon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49236. The Survey maps it on the Macon quadrangle.
On record in Macon
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 1 record
Pennington, John-Ford, Henry, Houselisted 1974
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Ann Arbor quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1906 USGS Saline quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1908 USGS Ann Arbor quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Macon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Macon between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLINTON FD 231 - 2020 |
| 26 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | RIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000141 - 2018 |
| 2 May 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLINTON FD 117 - 2020 |
| 3 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | RIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000069 - 2019 |
| 27 March 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | RIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000065 - 2019 |
| 27 March 2019 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | RIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000066 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Macon in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 5 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macon | $3,000 | Trees and powerlines reported down. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macon | - | Large trees, over 1 foot in diameter, were reported down. A trained spotter estimated the winds at 70 mph. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macon | - | Numerous trees were reported down. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macon | - | A large tree and several additional large tree limbs were reported blown down. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 631303. 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.