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Rives Junction, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Rives Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49277. It stands on Albrow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leslie quadrangle. It stands 928 feet above sea level.

Rives Junction within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Rives Junction between 2018 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 1 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 use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
9 September 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRIVES-TOMPKINS FD 611 - 2020
2 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRIVES-TOMPKINS FD 370 - 2019
6 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLACKMAN-LEONI TOWNSHIP DPS 15461 - 2019
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRIVES-TOMPKINS FD 0000188 - 2018
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLESLIE FD 0000039 - 2018
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLESLIE FD 0000037 - 2018
6 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRIVES-TOMPKINS FD 158 - 2019
5 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRIVES-TOMPKINS FD 225 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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 Rives Junction: 2 producers. All of them 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
Bill Smith Sand and Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jerome Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rives Junction in 1 storm report in 1997: 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
July 1997Thunderstorm WindRives Junction$5,000Jackson County officials reported a 60 mph wind gust in Rives Junction in Rives Township in north central Jackson County. Downed trees were also reported.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Berryville1.9 miles11
Tompkins4.3 miles12
Minards Mill5.6 miles12
Pleasant Lake6.0 miles13
Roots8.2 miles12
Woodville8.9 miles12
Sandstone9.7 miles12
Jackson10.2 miles19

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 Q122553038The 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 636023. 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.