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Sumner, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sumner Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48889. The Survey maps it on the Sumner quadrangle. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Sumner within Gratiot County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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 Sumner between 2018 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000031 - 2019
23 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL TOWNSHIP FD 0086-19 - 2019
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL TOWNSHIP FD 0045-20 - 2020
13 June 2018Arson/incendiarism23 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTCALM 02
9 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARSON CITY FD 201832 - 2018
9 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL TOWNSHIP FD 0031-18 - 2018
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALMA FD 0000072 - 2019
30 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL TOWNSHIP FD 0039-18 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gratiot 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 Sumner: 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
Elm Hall Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gratiot Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hubscher & Sons PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gratiot County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sumner in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2000: 4 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
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSumner$20,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSumner$20,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSumner$10,000Downed trees and limbs were reported by law enforcement in Gratiot County.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindSumner$5,000Trees were downed in Sumner Township.

Every storm recorded in Gratiot 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
Elm Hall4.1 miles11
New Haven Center4.5 miles10
Riverdale5.5 miles10
Eugene5.9 miles14
Sethton6.4 miles10
Elwell6.7 miles14
Newark6.9 miles14
Alma9.6 miles14

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 Q136346939The 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 639063. 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.