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Shaftsburg, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Woodhull Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48872. The Survey maps it on the Shaftsburg quadrangle.

Shaftsburg within Shiawassee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Shaftsburg between 1994 and 2019, burning about 165 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLARK RD DOWN WIRE
27 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000375 - 201
8 June 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHIAWASSEE 01
21 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000297 - 201
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000223 - 201
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPERRY AREA FIRE/RESCUE 0000049 - 2019
2 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPERRY AREA FIRE/RESCUE 0000042 - 2019
2 April 1994Debris and open burning60 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shiawassee 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 Shaftsburg: 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
Grand River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Shiawassee County

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shaftsburg in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flood. 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
September 2008FloodShaftsburg$50,000no account filed
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Shaftsburg$30,000The Tornado was rated EF0 with maximum winds to 75 mph. Path width was 60 yards and path length 3/4 mile. The tornado started at Lansing and Warner roads, and followed lansing road and then crossed I-69. The tornado ended at the entrance ramp of the highway rest area. Many trees were uprooted and shingles were torn off a church.
May 2011Tornado (EF1)Shaftsburg$25,000A tornado which originated in Ingham county crossed into Shiawassee county near LoveJoy and Locke Roads at 528 PM, tracking northeast for around three miles, ending at Beard and Ruppert Roads at 532 pm. The damage path was about 100 yards wide. Damage was mostly soft and hard wood trees uprooted and snapped, with estimated max wind speed of 90 mph, making this Tornado an EF1.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindShaftsburg-At least 2 trees down, one of which fell on a vehicle. No injuries, but the passenger reportedly was stuck in the vehicle.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindShaftsburg-Trees reported down.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindShaftsburg-Part of a barn roof and wall blown down, along with a downed tree.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindShaftsburg-Tree reported down on road.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindShaftsburg-Several large tree limbs up to 12 inch in diameter were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Shiawassee 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
Forest Green Estates1.4 miles13
Perry4.2 miles13
Morrice6.5 miles13
Laingsburg6.7 miles13
Pittsburg7.1 miles14
Bennington9.4 miles14
Antrim Center9.5 miles13
Bancroft13.2 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 Q122546468The 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 637641. 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.