West Sumpter, Michigan
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sumpter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48111. It stands on Winters Drain. The Survey maps it on the Maybee quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1902 USGS Ypsilanti quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Ann Arbor quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1906 USGS Ypsilanti quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1908 USGS Ann Arbor quadrangle1:125000
- 1936 USGS Maybee quadrangle1:31680
- 1940 USGS Maybee quadrangle1:24000
- 1942 USGS Maybee quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Maybee quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
39 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of West Sumpter between 2005 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 589 - 2019 |
| 22 August 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 566 - 2020 |
| 11 August 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 543 - 2020 |
| 8 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 460 - 2020 |
| 8 July 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 450 - 2018 |
| 6 July 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 406 - 2019 |
| 3 July 2020 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 442 - 2020 |
| 27 July 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 482 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Sumpter in 7 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Sumpter | 2 hurt | Two minor injuries reported at the Sumpter Country Festival, as the inflatable bouncy houses broke loose and went airborne. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Sumpter | $10,000 | Large tree limbs and powerlines down. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Sumpter | - | Trees reported blown down. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Sumpter | - | Numerous tree branches and small tree reported blown down. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Sumpter | - | Several large tree limbs reported down. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Sumpter | - | Multiple trees and large tree limbs were reported down. |
| July 2012 | Hail | West Sumpter | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martinsville | 3.0 miles | 19 | |
| Roulo | 4.9 miles | 19 | |
| Edgewater Heights | 5.6 miles | 20 | |
| Belleville | 5.8 miles | 19 | |
| Willow | 6.1 miles | 17 | |
| New Boston | 6.3 miles | 19 | |
| Waltz | 6.4 miles | 17 | |
| Belleville North | 7.1 miles | 19 |
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 Q122542165 | The 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 1616181. 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.
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.












