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Medina, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Medina Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49247. It stands on Medina Drain. The Survey maps it on the Hudson quadrangle.

Medina within Lenawee 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

15 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Medina between 2018 and 2020, burning about 82 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 April 2019Debris and open burning40 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDOVER-HUDSON TOWNSHIP/CLAYTON FD 0000085 - 2019
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORENCI FD 0000075 - 2019
5 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresMichigan Wetland Management DistrictMIMWR-FY19-WF-SCHOONOVER WPA
5 April 2019Natural3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDOVER-HUDSON TOWNSHIP/CLAYTON FD 0000078 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDOVER-HUDSON TOWNSHIP/CLAYTON FD 0000075 - 2019
28 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUDSON FD 0000077 - 2019
24 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDOVER-HUDSON TOWNSHIP/CLAYTON FD 0000098 - 2019
2 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORENCI FD 0000068 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medina in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 2 hail, 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMedina$25,000A roof was reported blown off a house on Lime Creek Road.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMedina$5,000Trees reported down.
May 2011HailMedina-no account filed
June 1998HailMedina-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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
Canandaigua1.7 miles11
North Morenci3.7 miles11
Clayton4.1 miles11
Lime Creek4.6 miles11
Seneca4.8 miles11
Hudson5.8 miles11
Morenci6.6 miles15
Cadmus7.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 632069. 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.