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Petrieville, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Eaton Rapids Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48827. It stands on Harris Drain. The Survey maps it on the Aurelius quadrangle.

Petrieville within Eaton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Petrieville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
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
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEATON RAPIDS FD 305 - 2020
29 July 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAMLIN TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000103 - 2018
29 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASON FD 123 - 2020
28 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEATON RAPIDS TWP FD 302 - 2019
12 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEATON RAPIDS FD 261 - 2019
12 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEATON RAPIDS TWP FD 288 - 2019
8 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASON FD 92 - 2019
6 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEATON RAPIDS FD 153 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eaton 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 Petrieville: 1 producer. 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
Whittum Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Eaton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Petrieville in 1 storm report in 2013: 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
November 2013Thunderstorm WindPetrieville$50,000Three residences and trees and outbuildings damaged by wind gusts up to 70 mph and possible very brief EF-0 tornado.

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
Eaton Rapids2.6 miles13
Kingsland4.0 miles13
Charlesworth6.9 miles12
Dimondale7.7 miles14
Whaley Drain8.6 miles14
West Windsor8.7 miles14
Potterville9.0 miles14
Brookfield11.0 miles15

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 Q122548751The 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 1617783. 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.