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South Jackson, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49201. The Survey maps it on the Jackson South quadrangle.

South Jackson within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

31 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of South Jackson between 2015 and 2020, burning about 50 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

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
24 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FD 3240 - 2018
5 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 186 - 2019
25 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 0000240 - 2018
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIBERTY TOWNSHIP FD 99 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMMIT TOWNSHIP FD 0000701 - 2019
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMMIT TOWNSHIP FD 0000843 - 2018
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIBERTY TOWNSHIP FD 0000120 - 2018
2 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIBERTY TOWNSHIP FD 91 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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 South Jackson: 1 producer. 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
Stevick Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Jackson in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 3 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 2010Thunderstorm WindSouth Jackson-Jackson county central dispatch reported that several trees were blown down across portions of the county. Very heavy rainfall also caused some street flooding in Napoleon and Vandercook Lake.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSouth Jackson-One tree was blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSouth Jackson-One tree was blown down.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Vandercook Lake3.0 miles19
Liberty4.3 miles18
Horton4.8 miles11
Clarklake5.1 miles18
Jackson6.1 miles19
Spring Arbor7.3 miles11
Michigan Center7.3 miles17
Woodville7.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 638367. 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.