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Toquin, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Bangor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49057. The Survey maps it on the McDonald quadrangle.

Toquin within Van Buren 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

40 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Toquin between 1996 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 5 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 use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
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
30 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 142 - 2020
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 419 - 2019
8 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 285 - 2019
8 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 106 - 2019
9 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOVERT FD 200166 - 2020
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOVERT FD 0000169 - 2018
7 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOVERT FD 0000166 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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 Toquin: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Garlanger SiteSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
Rose PitSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toquin in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindToquin$3,000,000Trained spotters reported numerous trees and tree limbs and power lines down across mainly southern Van Buren county. Hail up to one inch in diameter was also reported. Two miles west of Lawrence there was a higher concentration of several dozen large healthy tree trunks snapped, uprooted, or large limbs snapped. Damage occurred to at least 3 residences due to fallen trees, one probably a total loss, another with significant roof damage. Cleanup was still ongoing 12 days after the storms struck. Just east of Hartford, hundreds of trees were scattered within approximately a 6 square-mile area with large limbs snapped, trunks snapped, or uprooted. Damage was centered in and near the Van Buren County Youth Fair. The Van Buren Historical Society Museum had damage to the back of the building due to fallen tree limbs.

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Covert3.2 miles11
Friendsville3.5 miles11
McDonald3.5 miles11
Stoughton Corners3.6 miles10
West Bangor4.0 miles11
Fish Corners4.2 miles11
Hartford4.6 miles10
Jericho Corners6.2 miles11

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 Q122569551The 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 1614967. 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.