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Thornville, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Dryden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48455. It stands on Whigville Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thornville quadrangle.

Thornville within Lapeer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Thornville between 2003 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. None 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 use8
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
30 September 2010Debris and open burning7.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAPEER 01
31 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMETAMORA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000243 - 2018
17 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMETAMORA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000218 - 2019
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMETAMORA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000119 - 2018
27 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDRYDEN TOWNSHIP FD 0018026 - 2018
24 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesATTICA TOWNSHIP FD 0000019 - 2018
23 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMETAMORA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000115 - 2018
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARCADIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000011 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lapeer County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Thornville: 6 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
Lapeer County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Metamora Pit and MilSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Parrish Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Paton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peake Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St Clair County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lapeer County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thornville in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 3 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindThornville-Several dozen trees knocked down and a large barn destroyed.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindThornville-Downed trees and power lines reported.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindThornville-A tree was reported blown down.

Every storm recorded in Lapeer 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
Metamora3.5 miles12
Hunters Creek4.8 miles12
Dryden5.3 miles11
Farmers Creek6.3 miles12
Attica6.8 miles10
Lapeer9.0 miles10
Hadley9.5 miles11
Imlay City9.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1614802. 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.