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Richfield Center, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Richfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48423. It stands on Riegle Drain. The Survey maps it on the Davison quadrangle.

Richfield Center within Genesee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

24 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Richfield Center between 2018 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
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
21 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGENESEE TWP FIRE STATION #1 0000200 - 2019
24 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 437 - 2020
15 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 425 - 2020
4 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOREST TOWNSHIP FD 72 - 2020
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAPEER CITY FIRE/RESCUE 0118218 - 2018
14 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOREST TOWNSHIP FD 78 - 2020
12 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGENESEE TWP FIRE STATION #1 0000133 - 2018
30 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOREST TOWNSHIP FD 112 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Richfield Center: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Elba Gravel CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ferguson Excavating Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kurtz Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kurtz Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mathews Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richfield Center in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2013: 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 2013HailRichfield Center-no account filed
July 2010HailRichfield Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
Russellville2.1 miles16
Rogersville3.7 miles16
Davison4.0 miles16
Otisville5.1 miles16
Genesee5.4 miles16
Belsay6.2 miles16
Lapeer Heights7.1 miles16
Burton8.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 635878. 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.