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Oneida Center, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Oneida Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48837. The Survey maps it on the Needmore quadrangle.

Oneida Center within Eaton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Oneida Center between 2018 and 2020, burning about 13 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
26 September 2020Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWINDSOR TOWNSHIP EMERGENCY SERVICES 150 - 2020
27 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND LEDGE FD 0002379 - 2019
15 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPOTTERVILLE-BENTON TWP FD 0000123 - 2019
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND LEDGE FD 0002191 - 2018
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND LEDGE FD 0002170 - 2018
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND LEDGE FD 0002169 - 2018
25 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND LEDGE FD 0002194 - 2019
12 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 198436 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eaton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Oneida Center: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz. 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
Pryor Brothers PitQuartzPast Producer
Crandell Brothers Trucking Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Harman Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pryor Brothers, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pryor Brothers, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
American Sewer Pipe Co Shale PitClayPast Producer
Briggs Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
Grand Ledge Clay Prod Co Shale PitClayPast Producer
Lawson Clay PitClayProducer
Lawson Road MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Eaton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oneida Center in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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
June 2013Flash FloodOneida Center$50,000I-69 was flooded near Potterville and several roads in the Potterville and Dimondale areas were flooded or washed out with a few cars stalled and flipped over by flood waters. There were no injuries or fatalities.
April 2020HailOneida Center$10,000Trained spotters reported one inch diameter hail near Oneida Center.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOneida Center-A metal roof of a barn was peeled off and several trees were uprooted by estimated winds of 75 mph just north of Mt. Hope highway.

Every storm recorded in Eaton 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
Grand Ledge2.5 miles11
Needmore5.1 miles10
Delta Center6.2 miles14
Hoytville6.3 miles10
Mulliken6.7 miles10
West Windsor7.0 miles14
Potterville7.0 miles14
Whaley Drain7.4 miles14

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 Q122546623The 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 2109950. 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.