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Stony Creek, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Augusta Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48197. The Survey maps it on the Ypsilanti West quadrangle.

Stony Creek within Washtenaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

14 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Stony Creek between 2005 and 2020, burning about 34 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
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
9 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALINE AREA FD 0000924 - 2019
26 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALINE AREA FD 0001000 - 2019
17 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 657 - 2020
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP DPS 0646463 - 2019
16 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP DPS 0617710 - 2019
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP DPS 0376273 - 2019
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALINE AREA FD 0000494 - 2018
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 330 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washtenaw 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 Stony Creek: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Paint Creek Clay DepositFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
William Brink Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washtenaw County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stony Creek in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Stony Creek$20,000A National Storm Survey determined an EF0 tornado occured along Judd Road between Hitchingham and Whitaker Roads, and extended southeast to near Whitaker Road. Maximum estimated winds were around 80 mph, with a path length of 0.6 miles and width of 100 yards.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindStony Creek-A 10 inch diameter tree branch was reported down on the road.
June 2023HailStony Creek-no account filed
June 2016HailStony Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washtenaw 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
Lincoln2.7 miles20
Whittaker3.4 miles20
Paint Creek3.8 miles20
Willis5.0 miles20
Milan5.1 miles15
Pittsfield5.3 miles17
Mooreville5.6 miles15
Ypsilanti6.2 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 638891. 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.