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Norvell, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Norvell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49230. The Survey maps it on the Norvell quadrangle. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Norvell within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Norvell between 2018 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 2 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 use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
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
3 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 362 - 2020
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 344 - 2020
22 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 294 - 2020
15 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 493 - 2020
15 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRASS LAKE FD 0000177 - 2018
14 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 490 - 2020
6 May 2019Natural15 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 314 - 2019
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 145 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Norvell: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, 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
Mellen Camp Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jude Sandstone QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Jude Stone QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Napoleon Sandstone QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working 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
Napoleon3.3 miles13
Fishville3.9 miles13
Oak Point4.5 miles17
Brooklyn4.9 miles13
Sunset Beach5.0 miles13
The Heights5.3 miles13
Jefferson6.5 miles18
Grass Lake6.6 miles15

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 Q136348572The 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 633747. 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.