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Munith, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Henrietta Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49259. It stands on Cahaogan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Lake quadrangle. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Munith within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Munith between 2018 and 2020, burning about 19 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
6 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHENRIETTA TOWNSHIP FD 100 - 2020
6 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHENRIETTA TOWNSHIP FD 101 - 2020
3 April 2019Smoking2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTOBRIDGE AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY 201903
21 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTOBRIDGE AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY 201803
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTOBRIDGE AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY 201802
26 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHENRIETTA TOWNSHIP FD 0000099 - 2019
8 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHENRIETTA TOWNSHIP FD 373 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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 Munith: 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
Whittaker and Gooding Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Munith in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2023Tornado (EF0)Munith$100,000A brief EF-0 tornado occurred just north of Whitehead Lake and south of Territorial road in northeast Jackson county. It moved east northeast and lifted just northeast of Leeke road and north of Bowdish road. Intermitted damage was foudn along the path primarily to trees and crops. One business along the path sustained some minor structural damage that included roof damage and siding damage to an outbuilding.
July 2023Tornado (EF0)Munith$100,000A brief EF-0 tornado occurred southeast of Stockbridge. It touched down near Orchard Creek east of Fitchburg road and south of Baseline road. Several dozen large trees were impacted with several uprooted trees along the path. Several homes on Musbach road had minor roof damage or damage from tree debris. The tornado lifted near Dewey road.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindMunith$15,000The Jackson County Sheriff's Department reported trees and power lines were downed in Munith. One tree fell on the roof of a home and another across a vehicle in the area.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindMunith-Roughly a 1 by 2 mile area of widely scattered tree damage was observed about two miles west-northwest of Tompkins.
June 1998Flash FloodMunith-Jackson County local law enforcement reported flooding of several intersections along Michigan Highway 106 across northeastern Jackson County, in and around the Munith area. NWS Doppler Radar estimated two to three inch per hour rainfall with storm totals in excess of five inches over a two hour period from isolated thunderstorms over this area. No injuries or significant damages were reported.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Trist4.6 miles15
Pleasant Lake5.3 miles13
Roots5.4 miles12
Waterloo6.4 miles15
Holiday Manor Park8.5 miles12
Francisco9.8 miles15
Grass Lake9.8 miles15
Leoni10.2 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 MunithAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12834045The 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 633123. 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.