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Sharon, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Garfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49633. It stands on Big Cannon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sharon quadrangle.

Sharon within Kalkaska County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Sharon between 1992 and 2019, burning about 167 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLDSPRINGS-EXCELSIOR FIRE/RESCUE 1820889 - 2018
21 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2014Fireworks1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALKASKA 0006
29 July 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2019Recreation and ceremony6.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALKASKA 04 - NAPLES RD
20 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALKASKA 05 - WEST OF SUNSET
14 June 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1995Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalkaska County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharon in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1995Thunderstorm WindSharon$5,000Lightning struck a tree which fell and killed a 68-year-old man near East Lake at Spencer. Numerous trees and power lines were downed by the wind creating power outages that lasted over two days.
August 2015HailSharon-no account filed
June 2006HailSharon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kalkaska 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
O'Neil4.0 miles14
Millers Corners4.3 miles14
Spencer4.5 miles14
McGee5.6 miles14
Sigma6.1 miles14
Taffeltown6.1 miles14
Giddings6.5 miles14
Lodi6.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 637663. 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.