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Sethton, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in New Haven Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48811. The Survey maps it on the Carson City quadrangle.

Sethton within Gratiot County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Sethton between 2018 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
3 April 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARSON CITY FD 202013 - 2020
27 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARSON CITY FD 201922 - 2019
25 April 2019Natural25 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARSON CITY FD 201920 - 2019
17 March 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARSON CITY FD 201813 - 2018
12 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL TOWNSHIP FD 0018-20 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gratiot 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 Sethton: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gratiot Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gratiot 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
New Haven Center2.0 miles10
Newark4.1 miles14
Brice4.1 miles10
Middleton4.4 miles14
Perrinton5.8 miles14
Eugene6.2 miles14
Sumner6.4 miles11
Pompeii9.7 miles13

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 Q122571936The 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 1617846. 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.