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Pettysville, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Hamburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48169. It stands on Chilson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hamburg quadrangle.

Pettysville within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Pettysville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Natural1

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
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEXTER AREA FD 0000639 - 2018
26 July 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPUTNAM TOWNSHIP FD 0000339 - 2018
3 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRIGHTON AREA FD 0000684 - 2018
17 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAMBURG TOWNSHIP FD 0000539 - 2018
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAMBURG TOWNSHIP FD 0000459 - 2018
6 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPUTNAM TOWNSHIP FD 0000150 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pettysville: 4 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
Bennett No 12 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pettysville in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2021: 2 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 2009FloodPettysville$500,000no account filed
September 2021Thunderstorm WindPettysville-Tree blown down and blocking the road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPettysville-Trees and wires reported down.

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Lakeland1.6 miles19
Parishfield2.6 miles19
Chilson3.6 miles13
Hamburg4.0 miles19
Pinckney4.3 miles19
Brighton6.0 miles13
Hell6.7 miles19
Whitmore Lake7.1 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 634741. 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.