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Sonoma, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Leroy Township. The Survey maps it on the East Leroy quadrangle.

Sonoma within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

23 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Sonoma between 2012 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 3 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 use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Smoking3

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 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05331 - 2018
13 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05179 - 2018
28 July 2012Natural3.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALHOUN 01
20 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWTON TOWNSHIP FD 00097 - 2019
20 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT TOWNSHIP DPS 00877 - 2019
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT TOWNSHIP DPS 00804 - 2018
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 04000 - 2018
27 June 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWTON TOWNSHIP FD 00088 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sonoma: 2 producers. 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
Calhoun County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rays Aggregates CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sonoma in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSonoma$25,000Several trees were blown down and blocked area roads in Sonoma and Athens as well as two miles north of Burlington.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindSonoma$2,000A couple of trees were blown down near Sonoma.
June 2011Flash FloodSonoma-B Drive South between 4 Mile Road and 4 1/2 Mile Road flooded to a depth of 4.5 feet.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Old Mill Gardens2.9 miles18
Joppa3.1 miles14
West Leroy3.3 miles14
Lakeview4.6 miles18
East Leroy4.6 miles14
Beadle Lake4.8 miles18
Pine Creek4.9 miles14
Stanley Corners4.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 638248. 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.