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Stony Creek, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rochester Hills City. It lies in ZIP code area 48307. It stands on Stony Creek. The Survey maps it on the Utica quadrangle.

Stony Creek within Oakland County

On record in Stony Creek

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

32 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Stony Creek between 2018 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2

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
25 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0005784 - 2018
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0005593 - 2018
29 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCHESTER HILLS FD 0005044 - 2019
23 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCHESTER HILLS FD 0004371 - 2020
13 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP FD 0001820 - 2018
30 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0004548 - 2018
28 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0004509 - 2018
26 July 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0001054 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Stony Creek: 5 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
Compton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Macomb PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morgan Number 1 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nay and Gladstone PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sees Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stony Creek in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 6 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindStony Creek-Large trees uprooted in the Knollwood Hills Subdivision. Large tree limbs and power lines were also observed down as well. One large tree limb clipped the corner of a house, damaging the roof.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindStony Creek-Tree down on the road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindStony Creek-Numerous tree limbs reported down.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindStony Creek-Multiple large trees blown down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindStony Creek-Four to five inch tree limbs reported blown down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindStony Creek-Large tree limbs reported blown down.
July 2023HailStony Creek-no account filed
May 2007HailStony Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oakland 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
Rochester1.6 miles21
Yates1.8 miles18
Rochester Hills3.3 miles21
Goodison3.7 miles21
Auburn Hills6.5 miles21
Troy6.6 miles17
Campbells Corner7.2 miles13
Auburn Heights7.3 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 638892. 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.