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Munson, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Medina Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49256. The Survey maps it on the Fayette quadrangle.

Munson within Lenawee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

9 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Munson in 2019, burning about 17 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-WALDRON FIRE & AMBULANCE 0000224 - 2019
26 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-WALDRON FIRE & AMBULANCE 0000223 - 2019
5 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000045 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-WALDRON FIRE & AMBULANCE 0000120 - 2019
2 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORENCI FD 0000068 - 2019
27 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORENCI FD 0000064 - 2019
26 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-WALDRON FIRE & AMBULANCE 0000108 - 2019
25 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-WALDRON FIRE & AMBULANCE 0000107 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Munson in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 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
June 2015FloodMunson$100,000Many roads in southern Lenawee county were closed due to flooding, with a few roads washed out.
May 2011HailMunson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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
Lime Creek3.7 miles11
Morenci5.9 miles15
North Morenci6.7 miles11
Medina7.5 miles11
Canandaigua7.8 miles11
Seneca9.6 miles11
Hudson10.0 miles11
Clayton11.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 633128. 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.

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.