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Springville, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Cambridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49265. The Survey maps it on the Onsted quadrangle.

Springville within Lenawee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

29 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Springville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 11 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
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
20 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 713 - 2020
27 August 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 626 - 2020
26 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 1020 - 2018
20 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000888 - 2019
19 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 586 - 2019
14 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 490 - 2020
6 May 2019Natural15 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 314 - 2019
5 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 309 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee 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 Springville: 3 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
Cole Brothers Lanawee County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gallop Pit No. 4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stevick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springville in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 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
February 2017Thunderstorm WindSpringville-Reports of several trees down in Cambridge Township.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindSpringville-Trees reported down across the road.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSpringville-A trained spotter estimated winds of 60 to 65 mph on Sand Lake.

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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
Onsted2.1 miles13
Oak Shade Park2.5 miles13
Cambridge Junction3.2 miles13
Tipton5.8 miles12
Rome Center6.3 miles9
Devils Lake6.7 miles18
Geneva7.8 miles9
Round Lake Estates7.9 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 638633. 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.