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Marengo, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Marengo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49224. The Survey maps it on the Northwest Albion quadrangle.

Marengo within Calhoun County

On record in Marengo

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Marengo between 2018 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 3 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 use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural3

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPARMA-SANDSTONE FD 504 - 2020
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 216 - 2020
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARENGO TOWNSHIP FD 0000108 - 2018
27 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBION DPS 0000066 - 2019
2 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL FD 00479 - 2018
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHERIDAN TOWNSHIP FD 2018085 - 2018
1 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use14 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHERIDAN TOWNSHIP FD 2018074 - 2018
24 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBION DPS 0000043 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun 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 Marengo: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Cole Bros Contractors, Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
George Miller & Sons Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tekonsha PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yerington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marengo in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 2 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindMarengo$5,000,000There were multiple reports of downed trees and limbs and power lines.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMarengo-A trained spotter reported two trees were blown down two miles north northwest of Marengo.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Rice Creek4.5 miles15
Babcock4.5 miles12
Eckford4.9 miles12
Albion5.4 miles12
Marshall6.1 miles14
Condit6.6 miles12
Wrights Corners7.6 miles11
Albion Landing8.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 631543. 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.