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Tipton, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49287. It stands on Bruno Drain. The Survey maps it on the Tipton quadrangle. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Tipton within Lenawee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

13 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Tipton between 2005 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
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
24 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADRIAN TOWNSHIP FD 0000389 - 2018
3 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAND LAKE VFD 0000118 - 2018
23 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTECUMSEH FD 579 - 2020
23 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRAISIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000326 - 2018
27 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADRIAN TOWNSHIP FD 0000233 - 2019
5 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLINTON FD 090 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee 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 Tipton: 1 producer. 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
Gallop Pit No. 4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tipton in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
March 1998Tornado (F1)Tipton$25,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindTipton$5,000Trees reported down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTipton-Large tree limbs reported down over a few area roads, especially in the north central part of the county.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindTipton-Trees and power lines reported down.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindTipton-Trees and power lines reported down.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindTipton-Trees and power lines reported down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindTipton-Large tree limbs were reported down.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindTipton-An amateur radio operator reported trees down.

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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
Newburg5.4 miles15
Springville5.8 miles13
Birdsall6.0 miles12
Clinton6.2 miles15
Oak Shade Park6.2 miles13
Tecumseh6.4 miles15
Onsted6.7 miles13
Rome Center8.3 miles9

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 Q136348577The 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 1614882. 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.