BlockPickford, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It lies in ZIP code area 49774. It stands on Sanderson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pickford quadrangle. It stands 604 feet above sea level.
On record in Pickford
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Lipsett Hardware Buildinglisted 2013
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Pickford quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Sault Ste. Marie South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Pickford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PICKFORD VFD 2019-17 - 2019 |
| 24 July 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | 3 MILE |
| 20 May 1995 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | RABER TOWNSHIP VFD 0000003 - 2020 |
| 14 May 1992 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PICKFORD VFD 2020-06 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pickford in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 2 hail, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pickford | $12,000 | Trees downed. A scoreboard at the Pickford High School football field was destroyed. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pickford | $4,000 | Social media reports with pictures showing house siding and horse shelter roof blown off. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Pickford | - | One-inch diameter hail fell from 1300 EST to 1310 EST near Pickford. Canadian radio news reported crop damage on St. Joseph Island 25 miles East of Pickford, south of Neebish Island. No reports of crop damage in Chippewa County, where only hay is grown. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Pickford | - | no account filed |
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.
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.
| Wikipedia article on Pickford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122898345 | The 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 634810. 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.