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Russellville, 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 Zufelt Drain. The Survey maps it on the Davison quadrangle.

Russellville within Genesee County

On record in Russellville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

26 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Russellville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 29 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 use12
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
4 August 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGENESEE TWP FIRE STATION #1 0000163 - 2018
15 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 425 - 2020
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 18269 - 2018
4 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOREST TOWNSHIP FD 72 - 2020
26 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOREST TOWNSHIP FD 87 - 2020
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Russellville: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
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

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Russellville in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2013: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2013Thunderstorm WindRussellville$5,000Power lines and wired reported down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindRussellville$1,000A 2 foot diameter tree was reported blown down, along with structural damage to a garage roof.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindRussellville-Multiple trees were reported down.
June 2013HailRussellville-no account filed
June 2013HailRussellville-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
Richfield Center2.1 miles16
Rogersville2.4 miles16
Genesee3.5 miles16
Davison4.5 miles16
Belsay4.9 miles16
Otisville5.4 miles16
Lapeer Heights6.1 miles16
McGrew Junction6.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 636408. 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.