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Prairieville, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Prairieville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49046. The Survey maps it on the Cloverdale quadrangle.

Prairieville within Barry 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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Prairieville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural5
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
23 July 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesORANGEVILLE TOWNSHIP VFD 0000158 - 2019
29 June 2005Equipment and vehicle use12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTON FD 0000234 - 2018
10 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTON FD 0000221 - 2018
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTON FD 0000174 - 2018
17 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARRY 03 FISH LAKE
12 May 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesORANGEVILLE TOWNSHIP VFD 0000129 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Prairieville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Leonard Bros Clay PitClayPast Producer
Sutherland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barry County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prairieville in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 1998: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPrairieville$10,000A trained weather spotter and local radio broadcaster reported trees and power lines downed across Prairieville Township.
June 1998HailPrairieville-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindPrairieville-no account filed
August 1993HailPrairieville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barry 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
Stony Point1.6 miles19
Delton2.5 miles19
Cloverdale4.3 miles13
Orangeville4.7 miles9
Circle Pine Center4.8 miles13
Doster5.3 miles18
Cressey5.4 miles19
Turners Corner5.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 635397. 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.