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Milan, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Milan City. It lies in ZIP code area 48160. The Survey maps it on the Milan quadrangle. 6,079 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 702 feet above sea level.

Milan within Washtenaw County

On record in Milan

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

24 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Milan between 2005 and 2020, burning about 55 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 use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning1
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
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 808 - 2019
5 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 707 - 2020
9 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALINE AREA FD 0000924 - 2019
23 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 680 - 2020
17 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 657 - 2020
3 July 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 515 - 2020
2 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 561 - 2019
2 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 1800432 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washtenaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Milan: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Meyer Brothers'Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Paxton PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washtenaw County

Storms near this place

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milan in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 10 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail. 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 2000Thunderstorm WindMilan$525,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindMilan$65,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMilan$2,000A few large limbs were torn down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMilan-Eight inch diameter tree limbs were reported down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindMilan-A trained spotter reported large tree branches down and estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMilan-Two foot diameter trees were reported blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMilan-Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMilan-A trained spotter reported a tree blown onto the road.
June 2016HailMilan-no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
August 2011HailMilan-no account filed
May 2004HailMilan-no account filed
May 2004HailMilan-no account filed
June 2004HailMilan-no account filed
May 2003HailMilan-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
October 1999HailMilan-no account filed
June 1998HailMilan-no account filed
June 1998HailMilan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washtenaw 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
Mooreville3.0 miles15
Stony Creek5.1 miles17
Whittaker5.3 miles20
Lincoln6.6 miles20
Paint Creek7.3 miles20
Saline7.7 miles16
Willis8.3 miles20
Pittsfield8.9 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on MilanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1934225The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 632302. 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.