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Perronville, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Harris Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49807. The Survey maps it on the Schaffer quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Perronville within Menominee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Perronville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 144 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
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
31 August 2012Recreation and ceremony2.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources19TH ROAD
25 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresHiawatha National ForestCRIBBAGE
22 July 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1992Debris and open burning1.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 May 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Agency004
26 May 1995Debris and open burning1.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menominee 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 Perronville: 2 producers. 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
Menimone County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Menimonee County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Menominee County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perronville in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2005: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2005Thunderstorm WindPerronville-One tree down and several tree limbs down.
October 1996HailPerronville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Menominee 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
Whitney2.5 miles8
Eustis2.9 miles9
Harris6.6 miles9
Indiantown6.6 miles7
Houle6.8 miles7
Wilson7.9 miles7
LaBranche8.2 miles8
Hannahville10.1 miles9

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 Q122557257The 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 634665. 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.