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Morgan, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Castleton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49073. It stands on High Bank Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maple Grove quadrangle.

Morgan within Barry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Morgan between 1994 and 2019, burning about 276 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
12 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHASTINGS FD 0000429 - 2019
15 August 2005Debris and open burning6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHASTINGS FD 0000326 - 2019
5 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCASTLETON-MAPLEGROVE-NASHVILLE FD 0000046 - 2019
2 May 1996Equipment and vehicle use51 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2006Debris and open burning6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2005Debris and open burning4.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry 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 Morgan: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Darrell Hamilton Marl OperationLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barry County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morgan in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2007: 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
October 2007Funnel CloudMorgan-A coop observer reported a funnel cloud seven miles east of Hastings.
July 1999HailMorgan-3/4" diameter hail was observed in eastern Barry county, mainly in Castelton township.

Every storm recorded in Barry 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
Quimby2.9 miles10
Coats Grove4.3 miles10
Nashville4.6 miles10
Maple Grove5.5 miles10
Hastings6.3 miles12
Woodland7.5 miles10
Welcome Corner8.0 miles12
Dowling8.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 632682. 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.