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Seney, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Seney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49883. It stands on Gronden Creek. The Survey maps it on the Seney quadrangle. It stands 735 feet above sea level.

Seney within Schoolcraft County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

14 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Seney between 2005 and 2018, burning about 3,430 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 September 2010Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE LIGHTNING FIRE
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBB FIRE
11 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCUB FIRE
10 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesM77 FIRE
6 July 2005Naturalunder an acreSeney National Wildlife RefugeWHITE PINE
3 July 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2006Natural4.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2006Natural1.5 acresSeney National Wildlife RefugeTRAIL 143

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoolcraft County

Storms near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seney in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 4 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
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSeney$3,000Several trees down along Highway M-77 and adjoining side roads.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindSeney-Several trees were blown down along highway M-77.
July 2002HailSeney-Penny sized hail was reported.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindSeney-8 inch diameter trees down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSeney-Numerous trees blown down across tour route in Seney Wildlife Refuge.
June 2004HailSeney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Schoolcraft 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
Germfask6.7 miles11
Lavender Corner10.8 miles10
Walsh12.7 miles9
Blaney Park15.9 miles11
Creighton17.6 miles12
Pines18.1 miles12
Inland21.6 miles11
Blaney Junction22.2 miles11

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 SeneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14716276The 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 637577. 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.