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Vernon City, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Vernon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48617. The Survey maps it on the Clare quadrangle.

Vernon City within Isabella 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

33 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Vernon City between 1996 and 2020, burning about 181 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
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
15 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2001Fireworks3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2018Debris and open burning10 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISABELLA 03
7 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLARE FD 0000075 - 2018
25 May 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 1996Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 May 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLARE 10
14 May 2001Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isabella 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 Vernon City: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 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
McKenna Clay PitClayPast Producer
Russell Clay PitClayPast Producer
Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hubscher and Sons PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Loomis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shively Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Isabella County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vernon City in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2007: 1 tornado, 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
October 1998Tornado (F0)Vernon City$30,000Tornado touched down just south of Clare County then continued on the Ground into Clare County damaging moile and frame homes.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindVernon City$5,000Several trees and power lines were blown down by estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Isabella 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
Herrick3.6 miles11
Vernon Center4.0 miles12
Loomis5.8 miles11
Woods7.4 miles12
Rosebush8.0 miles15
Wise8.9 miles15
Delwin9.5 miles15
Leaton10.5 miles15

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 Q122562594The 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 2106935. 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.