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Oberlin, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48624. The Survey maps it on the Skeels quadrangle.

Oberlin within Gladwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Oberlin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 287 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 were 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 burning25
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 September 2012Other causesunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGLADWIN 15
4 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGLADWIN 11
11 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGLADWIN 02
1 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use14 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gladwin 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 Oberlin: 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
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gladwin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oberlin in 1 storm report in 2008: 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 2008Flash FloodOberlin$25,000Radar estimated that two to four inches of rain fell in Butman Township between 1 and 3 PM EDT. The resulting runoff caused localized flash flooding. Water covered Sugar River Road, west of Leatonville Road. Substantial roadbed erosion occurred along Hockaday Road, Ritchie Road just west of Hockaday, and at the intersection of Butman and Cemetary Roads.

Every storm recorded in Gladwin 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
Podunk3.5 miles9
Wagarville3.6 miles9
Hockaday4.3 miles9
Skeels4.4 miles9
McClure4.9 miles9
Butman4.9 miles9
Sugar Rapids5.3 miles9
Gladwin6.5 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617755. 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.