Salem, Michigan

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 1 record

• Salem Methodist Episcopal Church and Salem Walker Cemeterylisted 1992

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.

• 1902 USGS South Lyon quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Ann Arbor quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1906 USGS South Lyon quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1908 USGS Ann Arbor quadrangle1:125000
• 1936 USGS Salem quadrangle1:31680
• 1945 USGS Salem quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Salem quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Salem between 2018 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Worden
• Brookville
• Emery
• Dixboro
• Frain Lake
• Dexter

Every fire recorded in Washtenaw County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Salem: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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.

Every working recorded in Washtenaw County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salem in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Washtenaw County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 637102. 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.