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Meade, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Macomb Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48042. It stands on East Branch Coon Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Haven quadrangle.

Meade within Macomb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

23 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Meade between 2018 and 2020, burning about 23 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use6
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
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW HAVEN FIRE/RESCUE 0000412 - 2019
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLINTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0008251 - 2019
7 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMACOMB TOWNSHIP FD 0003200 - 2018
29 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLENOX TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000438 - 2019
20 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMACOMB TOWNSHIP FD 0003374 - 2019
16 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMACOMB TOWNSHIP FD 0003300 - 2019
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLENOX TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000414 - 2019
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0001811 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macomb County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Meade: 1 producer. All of them 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
Katz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Macomb County

Storms near this place

12 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meade in 12 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMeade$20,000Trees reported down.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMeade-Trees reported down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMeade-Several trees and power lines reported down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMeade-Several trees reported blown down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMeade-Eight inch diameter tree limbs reported down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMeade-A large tree was reported down across the road near the intersection of 26 Mile and North Avenue Roads.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMeade-A tree was reported blown down.
June 2009Flash FloodMeade-Water was covering many roads.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMeade-Large tree limbs reported down.
June 2024HailMeade-no account filed
July 2019HailMeade-no account filed
June 2013HailMeade-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Macomb 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
Ray Center3.3 miles14
Milton3.4 miles17
New Haven4.0 miles17
Chesterfield4.2 miles17
Wolcott Mills4.5 miles14
Davis4.6 miles17
Macomb4.6 miles17
Sebille Manor5.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 632042. 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.