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South Park, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Port Huron City. It lies in ZIP code area 48060. It stands on Bunce Creek. The Survey maps it on the Port Huron quadrangle.

South Park within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of South Park between 2018 and 2020, burning about 17 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 use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORT HURON FD 2223 - 2019
13 August 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORT HURON FD 2176 - 2019
25 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORT HURON TOWNSHIP FD 607 - 2020
5 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORT HURON FD 1413 - 2020
5 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORT HURON TOWNSHIP FD 476 - 2020
14 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORT HURON FD 0001515 - 2018
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORT HURON FD 0001175 - 2018
4 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFORT GRATIOT FD 1800443 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair 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 South Park: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
Morton Salt Co--Marysville, Mich.SaltPast Producer
Morton Salt Co--Port Huron, Mich.SaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Park in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindSouth Park-Numerous trees and large tree limbs reported down.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSouth Park-Trees observed uprooted and blown over.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSouth Park-Metal roof was blown off a shed.
September 2019HailSouth Park-no account filed
June 2008HailSouth Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Tappan2.1 miles15
Port Huron2.6 miles15
Marysville2.6 miles15
Sparlingville3.8 miles12
West Tappan5.0 miles12
Wadhams5.3 miles12
Kimball5.6 miles12
Keewahdin6.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1624945. 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.