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Shaytown, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Sunfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49096. The Survey maps it on the Hoytville quadrangle.

Shaytown within Eaton 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

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Shaytown in 2019, burning about 9 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/undetermined2
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
22 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUNFIELD FD 2019191 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUNFIELD FD 2019080 - 2019
3 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUNFIELD FD 2019079 - 2019
26 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUNFIELD FD 2019069 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eaton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Shaytown: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Lawson Clay PitClayPast Producer
Grumfield Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Eaton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shaytown in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindShaytown-A county official reported that a barn was blown down with very substantial damage.

Every storm recorded in Eaton 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
Little Venice1.4 miles10
Sunfield4.1 miles10
Hoytville4.9 miles10
Vermontville5.8 miles10
Mulliken5.8 miles10
Gresham6.1 miles10
Stalls Corner6.1 miles10
Needmore6.5 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617849. 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.