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Palmyra, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Palmyra Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49268. The Survey maps it on the Palmyra quadrangle. It stands 705 feet above sea level.

Palmyra within Lenawee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

10 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Palmyra between 2018 and 2020, burning about 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
29 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADRIAN CITY FD 0003644 - 2019
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON TOWNSHIP FD 0001348 - 2018
30 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON TOWNSHIP FD 0001489 - 2018
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPALMYRA TOWNSHIP FD 131 - 2020
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON TOWNSHIP FD 0001419 - 2018
15 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPALMYRA TOWNSHIP FD 94 - 2019
12 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000049 - 2019
7 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRAISIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000114 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee 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 Palmyra: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Bliss's Coal PitFire Clay (Refractory)Producer

Every working recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palmyra in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
March 2009FloodPalmyra$200,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPalmyra$5,000Numerous trees and wires reported down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindPalmyra$3,000A trained spotter reported numerous trees and power lines down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPalmyra-Multiple trees reported down in Palmyra Township.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindPalmyra-Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindPalmyra-NWS storm survey reported trees down.

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
Lenawee Junction1.8 miles11
Wellsville3.2 miles11
Ogden3.7 miles11
Blissfield4.3 miles11
Raisin Center4.9 miles11
Holloway5.3 miles11
Madison Center5.7 miles10
Adrian6.0 miles12

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 Q136348573The 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 634331. 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.