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Pompeii, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fulton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48874. The Survey maps it on the Pompeii quadrangle. It stands 715 feet above sea level.

Pompeii within Gratiot County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

5 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Pompeii between 2019 and 2020, burning about 65 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
17 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLEY VFD 0019105 - 2019
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAPLE RAPIDS VFD 23 - 2020
21 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000170 - 2019
1 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use61 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRATIOT 01
10 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLEY VFD 020-042 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gratiot County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pompeii in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 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 2004HailPompeii$5,000Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported three miles south of Pompeii.

Every storm recorded in Gratiot 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
Ola2.0 miles13
Bridgeville3.3 miles13
Perrinton4.2 miles14
North Star5.4 miles13
Middleton5.7 miles14
Ashley6.7 miles14
Newark7.3 miles14
Ithaca7.4 miles14

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 Q136346895The 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 635217. 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.