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Stittsville, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Norwich Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49651. The Survey maps it on the Stittsville quadrangle.

Stittsville within Missaukee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Stittsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
15 August 2001Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERRITT AREA FD 0102019 - 2019
31 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 May 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 May 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 2012Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALKASKA 09 - S. SHARON
13 May 1994Smoking4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 May 1995Smoking1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Missaukee County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stittsville in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 2008: 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
August 1993HailStittsville-Penny-size hail lasted for about 3 minutes.
June 2008HailStittsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Missaukee 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
Cutcheon4.0 miles12
Moorestown4.0 miles12
Pioneer4.4 miles12
Star City7.3 miles12
Morey7.7 miles12
Keelans Corner7.9 miles12
Merritt10.9 miles12
Lake City10.9 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122547430The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617870. 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.

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.