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Memphis, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Memphis City. It lies in ZIP code area 48041. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Memphis quadrangle.

Memphis within Macomb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Memphis between 2018 and 2020, burning about 23 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 use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1

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
25 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMEMPHIS VFD 2019265 - 2019
4 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMEMPHIS VFD 2018231 - 2018
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT FD 0000143 - 2019
1 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMEMPHIS VFD 2019197 - 2019
3 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 389 - 2020
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMEMPHIS VFD 2018136 - 2018
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMEMPHIS VFD 2018106 - 2018
24 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 214 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macomb County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Memphis in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 4 hail, 3 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMemphis$50,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMemphis$20,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMemphis-Power lines reported down.
August 2011HailMemphis-no account filed
June 2011HailMemphis-no account filed
April 2008HailMemphis-no account filed
June 1999HailMemphis-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
Richmond6.1 miles14
Armada7.1 miles14
New Haven11.6 miles17
Ray Center11.7 miles14
Wolcott Mills12.1 miles14
Meade13.5 miles17
Romeo14.5 miles12
Milton14.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1624727. 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.