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Pine Creek, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Leroy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49051. The Survey maps it on the Climax quadrangle.

Pine Creek within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Pine Creek between 2012 and 2020, burning about 10 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
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
28 July 2012Natural3.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALHOUN 01
27 June 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWTON TOWNSHIP FD 00088 - 2019
6 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesATHENS TOWNSHIP FD 0000080 - 2018
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesATHENS TOWNSHIP FD 0000078 - 2018
20 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesATHENS TOWNSHIP FD 60 - 2020
27 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEROY TOWNSHIP FD 0000072 - 2019
22 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesATHENS TOWNSHIP FD 0000049 - 2018
17 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEROY TOWNSHIP FD 0000041 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Creek in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 4 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPine Creek$50,000Several trees were blown down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPine Creek$25,000Calhoun county emergency management reported that a 3 foot diameter tree was blown down onto a house on M Drive between M66 and Two Mile Rd. in Battle Creek.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindPine Creek$20,000no account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindPine Creek-A 60 mile per hour wind gust was reported at Pine Creek.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
East Leroy2.0 miles14
Joppa2.6 miles14
West Leroy3.9 miles14
Sonoma4.9 miles14
Athens5.4 miles14
Stanley Corners7.2 miles14
Old Mill Gardens7.7 miles18
Beadle Lake9.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 634904. 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.