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Valley Farms, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1983. It stands in DeWitt Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48906. The Survey maps it on the Lansing North quadrangle.

Valley Farms within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

53 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Valley Farms between 1995 and 2020, burning about 58 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/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
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
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLINTON 01 - TURNER MUCK FIRE
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING FD 0015086 - 2018
18 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING FD 0016391 - 2019
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING TOWNSHIP FD 0000353 - 2018
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING FD 0014406 - 2019
15 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAST LANSING FD 0003100 - 2018
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1910689 - 2019
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING FD 0011507 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Valley Farms: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Briggs Company Clay PitClayPast Producer
Boichot Howe Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Builders Redi-Mix, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wood Wash PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valley Farms in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 1 hail, 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
July 2016HailValley Farms$10,000One inch diameter hail was reported north northeast of Lansing. A 63 mph measured wind gust was reported at Lansing Capital City airport.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindValley Farms-Large trees down over the road.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Clinton Village1.0 miles12
Gunnisonville2.3 miles12
DeWitt4.2 miles12
East DeWitt4.8 miles12
Bath5.5 miles14
South Riley8.2 miles11
Wacousta8.9 miles11
Price10.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1615450. 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.