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Silverwood, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It lies in ZIP code area 48760. The Survey maps it on the Clifford quadrangle.

Silverwood within Tuscola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Silverwood between 2005 and 2020, burning about 14 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAYVILLE FD 0000055 - 2018
11 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAYVILLE FD 0000043 - 2019
10 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARLETTE FD 0031045 - 2019
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAYVILLE FD 0000042 - 2018
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAYVILLE FD 0000040 - 2018
5 April 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAYVILLE FD 0000023 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscola 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 Silverwood: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite. 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
Wilkinson ChemicalMagnesiteProducer

Every working recorded in Tuscola County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silverwood in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2023: 2 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSilverwood-Trees reported down.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindSilverwood-A tree was reported blown down.

Every storm recorded in Tuscola 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
Mayville5.6 miles9
East Dayton6.4 miles9
Kingston7.1 miles10
Fostoria8.2 miles9
Daytona Branch9.6 miles9
Dayton9.8 miles9
Wilmot10.2 miles10
Juniata11.5 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 637970. 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.