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Peters, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Casco Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48064. The Survey maps it on the New Baltimore quadrangle.

Peters within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

16 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Peters between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
10 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 453 - 2018
14 June 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 302 - 2018
8 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 266 - 2019
5 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 261 - 2019
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 195 - 2020
20 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 257 - 2018
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 214 - 2019
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 183 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peters in 1 storm report in 2020: 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
August 2020HailPeters-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Casco2.2 miles13
Adair3.7 miles13
Fair Haven4.7 miles12
Anchorville4.8 miles12
Starville5.0 miles13
Copeland Corner5.0 miles13
Perch Point5.5 miles13
Muttonville6.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1624819. 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.