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Rolland Center, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Rolland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49310. It stands on South Branch Pine River. The Survey maps it on the Winn quadrangle.

Rolland Center within Isabella County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Rolland Center between 1994 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 were 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/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Natural2
Other causes1

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
7 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREMONT TOWNSHIP FD 2019-21 - 2019
30 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILLBROOK-ROLLAND TWPS FD 0000114 - 2018
13 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILLBROOK-ROLLAND TWPS FD 0000115 - 2019
16 June 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREMONT TOWNSHIP FD 2020-20 - 2020
7 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREMONT TOWNSHIP FD 2020-15 - 2020
4 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREMONT TOWNSHIP FD 2020-14 - 2020
4 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREMONT TOWNSHIP FD 2018-22 - 2018
3 May 2015Arson/incendiarism7.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISABELLA 04

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isabella County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rolland Center in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2012: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
October 2006Thunderstorm WindRolland Center$25,000no account filed
October 2006HailRolland Center$10,000no account filed
June 2011Flash FloodRolland Center$5,000Fremont Road (gravel road) was washed out between Littlefield Road and South Johnson.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindRolland Center-Several trees were blown down across portions of Isabella county.

Every storm recorded in Isabella 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
Blanchard4.5 miles11
Winn5.0 miles15
Broomfield Center5.2 miles11
Deerfield Center6.9 miles15
Two Rivers7.3 miles15
Lake Isabella8.2 miles15
Strickland8.8 miles10
Drew9.7 miles12

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 Q122558346The 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 1617824. 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.