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Trenary, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mathias Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49891. It stands on Scott Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trenary quadrangle. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Trenary within Alger 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

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Trenary between 1995 and 2020, burning about 49 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
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
10 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMATHIS TOWNSHIP FD 0000720 - 2020
28 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMATHIS TOWNSHIP FD 0000519 - 2019
10 April 1995Debris and open burning47 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alger 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 Trenary: 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
State Pit # 65Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Alger County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trenary in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 10 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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 2000Thunderstorm WindTrenary$100,000Barn destroyed, killing a bull inside, trees down.
August 2021HailTrenary-Social media report of one-inch diameter hail at Trenary. The time of the report was estimated by the radar.
August 2017HailTrenary-There was a public report of one and a half inch diameter hail near Trenary.
August 2017HailTrenary-There was a picture of near golf ball sized hail near Trenary via social media. The hail fell for about twenty minutes. Strong winds were also observed.
December 2015Heavy RainTrenary-Observers across Alger County measured two-day rainfall totals between two and three inches with the highest totals generally over the western half of the county.
September 2014Heavy RainTrenary-There was a public report of 2.2 inches of rainfall in Trenary in less than eight hours.
August 2013HailTrenary-There were several reports of dime to quarter-sized hail in Trenary.
June 2008HailTrenary-Hail was estimated to be between nickel and quarter size.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindTrenary-Numerous trees down on Forest Highway H05. Trees blocked north and south bound lanes and stranded vehicles betweeen the trees.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindTrenary-Numerous trees down on Highway US-41. One lane of the highway was blocked.
April 2004HailTrenary-Penny sized hail was reported.
June 2004HailTrenary-Quarter sized hail was reported on Highway U.S. 41.
June 2001HailTrenary-Quarter sized hail.
June 2000HailTrenary-no account filed
July 1997HailTrenary-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alger 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
Diffin3.5 miles12
Traunik4.5 miles11
Limestone5.0 miles11
Mantila Camp5.1 miles12
Kiva7.3 miles11
Ladoga7.5 miles11
Chatham10.7 miles11
Eben Junction11.0 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 Q122545116The 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 1621941. 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.