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Monroe Center, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Green Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49637. It lies near Pierce Hill. The Survey maps it on the Buckley quadrangle.

Monroe Center within Grand Traverse 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Monroe Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 319 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
16 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources18410 - 2018
6 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 04 LOCKMAN
13 July 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 03 - HOOSIER VALLEY
1 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLAIR TOWNSHIP FD 0000132 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Monroe Center: 3 producers. 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
Beeman Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kidder PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Grand Traverse County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monroe Center in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2013: 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
August 2013Thunderstorm WindMonroe Center$11,000Tents were blown down and camper awnings were damaged at the Northwest Michigan Fair.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindMonroe Center$10,000Winds downed trees and caused property damage along Red Cardinal Lane and Adam Lane off of Blair Town Hall Road. Windows were blown out of a home, where the roof was damaged and lost an antenna. Fencing was also blown over.

Every storm recorded in Grand Traverse 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
Hilltop2.2 miles12
Grawn3.4 miles12
Hannah3.8 miles12
Pavlovic Corner4.3 miles15
Interlochen4.3 miles15
Chums Corners4.6 miles12
Karlin5.2 miles15
Wexford Corner7.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617728. 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.