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Samaria, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bedford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48177. It stands on North Branch Cone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lambertville East quadrangle. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Samaria within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

37 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Samaria between 2018 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 7 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 use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural7
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD FD 0001898 - 2018
29 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 284 - 2018
24 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 295 - 2020
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITEFORD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000190 - 2019
30 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesERIE TOWNSHIP FD 260 - 2020
20 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesERIE TOWNSHIP FD 261 - 2019
19 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 220 - 2020
16 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 214 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Samaria: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Little Sink Quarry LimestoneLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Samaria in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2011: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2006LightningSamaria$3,000Lightning struck a shed and started a fire that burned several pieces of furniture stored inside. Property damage was roughly estimated at $3K.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSamaria-Eight to twelve inch diameter trees reported blown down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSamaria-Trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2007HailSamaria-no account filed
September 2001HailSamaria-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Temperance2.1 miles19
Yargerville3.2 miles19
Lambertville3.9 miles16
Ida Center4.0 miles19
Liberty Corners4.1 miles16
Ottawa4.1 miles19
Saint Anthony4.2 miles16
Erie4.4 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on SamariaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q104841158The 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 637149. 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.