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Riley Center, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Riley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48041. The Survey maps it on the Memphis quadrangle.

Riley Center within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Riley Center between 1994 and 2020, burning about 22 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2

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
25 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMEMPHIS VFD 2019265 - 2019
1 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMEMPHIS VFD 2019197 - 2019
3 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 389 - 2020
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT FD 0000099 - 2018
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMEMPHIS VFD 2018149 - 2018
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMEMPHIS VFD 2018136 - 2018
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000039 - 2018
18 April 2020Natural5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000039 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riley Center in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 2009Thunderstorm WindRiley Center$25,000Trees and wires were reported down, along with shingles blown off roofs.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Riley Center$10,000A brief tornado of EF-0 rating occurred along Hill Road between Eagling and Braidwood in Saint Clair County. This tornado was on the ground for about a minute and had maximum wind speeds estimated around 75 mph, blowing trees over and damaging a roof on a shed. A deck was also blown over.
February 1996HailRiley Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Berville3.1 miles13
Lesterville3.6 miles13
Emmett5.3 miles13
Allenton5.7 miles13
Capac6.7 miles10
Lambs7.1 miles12
Wales Center8.7 miles12
Goodells9.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1624857. 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.