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Poseyville, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Ingersoll Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48640. The Survey maps it on the Midland South quadrangle.

Poseyville within Midland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

34 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Poseyville between 1996 and 2020, burning about 89 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
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
6 August 2001Fireworksunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTITTABAWASSEE TWP FD 441 - 2020
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTITTABAWASSEE TWP FD 436 - 2020
27 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND TOWNSHIP FD 19292 - 2019
9 April 2014Debris and open burning7.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 0002
9 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 01
3 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOMER TOWNSHIP FD 0000099 - 2020
28 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND TOWNSHIP FD 19189 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Midland County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Poseyville: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Halite. 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
Dow Chemical Company - Midland Michigan OperationsHalitePast Producer1892
Dow-MidlandMagnesite, Bromine, Iodine, CalciumProducer1940
Woodworth's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Dow Chemical Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
Tittabawassee Clay PitClayPast Producer
Dow Chemical Co--Hope, Mich.MagnesiteProducer
Martin Marietta-MidlandMagnesitePlant

Every working recorded in Midland County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poseyville in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 4 hail, 1 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
May 1997HailPoseyville$1,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPoseyville-The emergency manager reported a 12 inch diameter tree uprooted.
April 2020HailPoseyville-no account filed
September 2001HailPoseyville-no account filed
May 1999HailPoseyville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Midland 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
Lockport1.0 miles13
Bullock Creek3.0 miles13
Mapleton4.0 miles13
Dean4.1 miles13
Laporte4.4 miles15
Midland5.2 miles13
Golden6.5 miles13
Gordonville6.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 635319. 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.