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Thetford Center, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Thetford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48420. The Survey maps it on the Clio quadrangle.

Thetford Center within Genesee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

25 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Thetford Center between 2018 and 2020, burning about 33 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 use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony1

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 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 191 - 2020
25 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 205 - 2020
15 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 199 - 2020
4 August 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGENESEE TWP FIRE STATION #1 0000163 - 2018
11 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 166 - 2020
30 July 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 155 - 2020
3 July 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 138 - 2020
26 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOREST TOWNSHIP FD 87 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Thetford Center: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Kurtz Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thetford Center in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2015: 3 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
October 2007Tornado (EF0)Thetford Center$100,000This tornado developed at 0006EST in Thetford Township about 5 miles east of Clio. It started near Center and Vienna roads, tracked northeastward for 2.5 miles, and ended in Buell Lake Park. The tornado was rated as EF0 with winds estimated around 80 mph. Most of the damage was to large trees with many snapped or uprooted. One home had shingle damage and a barn had a portion of its metal roof peeled off. Damage to these two structures was estimated at $100K. The average path width was 50 yards. |
August 2015Thunderstorm WindThetford Center-Trees reported down.
August 2011HailThetford Center-no account filed
August 2011HailThetford Center-no account filed
May 2003HailThetford Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
Pine Run3.9 miles16
Farrandville4.7 miles16
Genesee4.8 miles16
Clio5.0 miles16
Mount Morris5.1 miles16
Rogersville5.1 miles16
Otisville6.2 miles16
Beecher6.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1614727. 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.