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Pittsford, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49271. The Survey maps it on the Pittsford quadrangle.

Pittsford within Hillsdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Pittsford between 1996 and 2020, burning about 31 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODBRIDGE TWP FIRE/RESCUE F202027 - 2020
19 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 19056 - 2019
18 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUDSON FD 0000091 - 2018
30 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 20028 - 2020
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 19021 - 2019
6 April 2019Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-WALDRON FIRE & AMBULANCE 0000127 - 2019
24 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFORD-JEFFERSON FIRE/RESCUE 19023 - 2019
24 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000465 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsdale 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 Pittsford: 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
Osseo Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hillsdale County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pittsford in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPittsford$10,000Power lines were blown down in the city limits.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindPittsford$4,000Power lines and two trees blown down between Osseo and Pittsford.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPittsford-Three trees down across SE half of county.
June 2021HailPittsford-A trained spotter reported baseball size hail.
July 1999HailPittsford-Tree limbs were also blown down.

Every storm recorded in Hillsdale 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
Locust Corners3.4 miles10
Fountain Park3.5 miles10
Osseo3.9 miles11
Shadyside4.2 miles10
Lickly Corners4.6 miles9
Ransom6.7 miles10
Prattville6.9 miles9
Steamburg7.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 635063. 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.