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Verona, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sigel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48413. The Survey maps it on the Bad Axe East quadrangle.

Verona within Huron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Verona between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined2
Natural1

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
14 September 1995Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBINGHAM TOWNSHIP FD 0000038 - 2019
7 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBAD AXE AREA FD 2020035 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Huron 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 Verona: 4 producers. 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
Dunlap PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Huron Co Road Comm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
M-19 Pit and Wash PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wagner Ready-Mix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Huron County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Verona in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 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 2021Thunderstorm WindVerona-Tree limbs and power lines were reported down, mostly in Sigel Township.
May 2006HailVerona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Huron 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
Rapson3.5 miles9
Bad Axe6.4 miles8
Ubly7.1 miles9
Parisville7.7 miles9
Redman8.9 miles9
Filion9.0 miles8
Ruth9.7 miles10
Lewisville9.9 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1615553. 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.