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Olson, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48657. The Survey maps it on the Sanford quadrangle.

Olson within Midland 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Olson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1

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 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 15
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 09
17 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 14
28 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOMER TOWNSHIP FD 0000183 - 2018
6 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEE TOWNSHIP FD 266 - 2018
12 July 2012Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Midland County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olson in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2014: 2 hail. 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 2014HailOlson-no account filed
May 2011HailOlson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Midland 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
Floyd2.7 miles13
Dice Corners3.3 miles13
Saint Elmo3.6 miles13
Sanford4.2 miles13
Gordonville5.1 miles13
Averill5.4 miles13
North Bradley6.7 miles13
Francis Grove6.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617762. 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.