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Oak Shade Park, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Cambridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49230. The Survey maps it on the Onsted quadrangle.

Oak Shade Park within Lenawee County

On record in Oak Shade Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

31 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Oak Shade Park between 2018 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
20 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 713 - 2020
27 August 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 626 - 2020
26 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 1020 - 2018
3 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAND LAKE VFD 0000118 - 2018
20 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000888 - 2019
19 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 586 - 2019
15 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 493 - 2020
14 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 490 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Shade Park in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2014: 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 2014Thunderstorm WindOak Shade Park-Trees uprooted and snapped in half.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindOak Shade Park-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.

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
Springville2.5 miles13
Cambridge Junction3.3 miles13
Onsted4.6 miles13
Tipton6.2 miles12
Devils Lake8.1 miles18
Rome Center8.7 miles9
Cement City9.0 miles18
Devil's Lake Estates9.7 miles9

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 Q122551997The 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 633863. 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.