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Richville, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Denmark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48757. The Survey maps it on the Reese quadrangle. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Richville within Tuscola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Richville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 3 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 use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural3

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
5 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKENMUTH FD 110 - 2019
21 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVASSAR FD 1062019 - 2019
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHVILLE FD 0000022 - 2019
9 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREESE FIRE RESCUE 2019030 - 2019
8 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKENMUTH FD 47 - 2020
21 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVASSAR FD 0522018 - 2018
27 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHVILLE FD 0000009 - 2019
27 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREESE FIRE RESCUE 2019020 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscola County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richville in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2008: 2 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 2004Thunderstorm WindRichville-A large tree fell across M-15.
June 2008HailRichville-no account filed
August 2004HailRichville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscola 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
Denmark Junction1.3 miles10
Reese3.0 miles10
Vassar5.6 miles10
Tuscola5.8 miles10
Karrs Corner5.9 miles10
Gilford6.6 miles10
Watrousville8.7 miles10
Fairgrove10.6 miles9

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 Q136346744The 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 635895. 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.