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Moddersville, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Holland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49632. The Survey maps it on the Moddersville quadrangle.

Moddersville within Missaukee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Moddersville between 1993 and 2019, burning about 195 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
1 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKirtlands Warbler National Wildlife RefugeCLARE #8
24 July 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMISSAUKEE 09
4 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMISSAUKEE 09
11 June 2003Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDOLPH RD-MISSAUKEE 03
22 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMISSAUKEE 07
21 May 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMISSAUKEE 05

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Missaukee 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 Moddersville: 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
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Missaukee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moddersville in 2 storm reports between 2002 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindModdersville$5,000Several trees down with power outages near Moddersville. Time estimated via radar.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindModdersville-Several trees down.

Every storm recorded in Missaukee 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
Butterfield4.0 miles12
Dolph4.0 miles12
Prosper4.5 miles11
Vogel Center5.6 miles11
Dinca6.7 miles12
Falmouth7.3 miles11
Merritt7.6 miles12
Keelans Corner10.4 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122556980The 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 1617725. 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.