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Sibley, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Trenton City. It lies in ZIP code area 48183. It stands on Huntington Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wyandotte quadrangle.

Sibley within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

27 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Sibley between 2018 and 2020, burning about 25 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
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYANDOTTE FD 0000619 - 2019
4 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHGATE FD 1903240 - 2019
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000143 - 2019
6 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000140 - 2019
22 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBROWNSTOWN FD 0002501 - 2019
2 August 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0005667 - 2019
13 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYANDOTTE FD 0000568 - 2019
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHGATE FD 1902950 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 Sibley: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mclouth Steel Trenton Rolling MillIronProducer
Sibley Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wyandotte Cement Plt.StoneProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sibley in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 6 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 2011Thunderstorm WindSibley$5,000Trees and tree limbs reported down across the south part of Grosse Ile.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSibley$2,000Large tree limbs fell down on a car.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindSibley-Measured at Grosse Ile Municipal Airport.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindSibley-A tree was reported blown down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindSibley-The Grosse Ile Bridge was closed due to wind damage.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSibley-A 10 inch diameter tree was reported blown down.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Riverview0.3 miles19
Trenton2.1 miles19
Southgate3.2 miles19
Grosse Ile3.3 miles19
Wyandotte3.4 miles19
Woodhaven4.0 miles19
Gibraltar5.2 miles18
Ecorse5.4 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1744626. 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.