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Paint Creek, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Augusta Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48191. It stands on Hewens Drain. The Survey maps it on the Ypsilanti East quadrangle.

Paint Creek within Washtenaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 20 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

24 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Paint Creek between 2005 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 4 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 use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony1
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 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVAN BUREN TOWNSHIP FD 0001606 - 2019
22 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 566 - 2020
6 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 406 - 2019
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP DPS 0646463 - 2019
1 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 396 - 2019
8 May 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 298 - 2020
4 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 287 - 2020
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesYPSILANTI TOWNSHIP FD 0001609 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washtenaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Paint Creek: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Berlin Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Paint Creek Clay DepositFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

Every working recorded in Washtenaw County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paint Creek in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2019Thunderstorm WindPaint Creek-Trees and tree limbs reported down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPaint Creek-A trained spotter measured a 72 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2018HailPaint Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washtenaw 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
Lincoln1.0 miles20
Willis1.3 miles20
Whittaker2.2 miles20
Stony Creek3.8 miles17
Rawsonville4.3 miles20
Eastlawn5.4 miles20
Ypsilanti6.0 miles20
Willow Run6.9 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 634294. 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.