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Watrousville, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Juniata Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48768. The Survey maps it on the Gilford quadrangle.

Watrousville within Tuscola County

On record in Watrousville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Watrousville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRGROVE FD 0003419 - 2019
14 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVASSAR FD 1162018 - 2018
6 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARO FD 0000117 - 2018
29 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVASSAR FD 1062018 - 2018
15 June 1992Debris and open burning2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVASSAR FD 0822018 - 2018
4 May 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVASSAR FD 0802018 - 2018
13 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVASSAR FD 0322019 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscola County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Watrousville: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 3 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
Peterhans Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit No 1 and Plant M-46Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sargent Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tuscola County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Washburn Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Tuscola County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Watrousville in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindWatrousville$500A tree was reported down.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindWatrousville-Power lines reported down, along with a roof blown off.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindWatrousville-Trees and wire reported down.
April 2011FloodWatrousville-Several roads were closed due to flooding from heavy showers and thundertorms.
April 2024HailWatrousville-no account filed
June 2004HailWatrousville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscola 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
Karrs Corner3.1 miles10
Wahjamega4.4 miles11
Fairgrove5.0 miles9
Gilford6.0 miles10
Vassar6.4 miles10
Caro7.2 miles11
Denmark Junction7.4 miles10
Juniata7.8 miles10

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 Q122598973The 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 1615868. 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.