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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.

West Sumpter within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 17 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

39 since 2005

Regional 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 use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural10
Smoking1
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
24 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 589 - 2019
22 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 566 - 2020
11 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 543 - 2020
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 460 - 2020
8 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 450 - 2018
6 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 406 - 2019
3 July 2020Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 442 - 2020
27 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 482 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

7 since 2010

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWest Sumpter2 hurtTwo minor injuries reported at the Sumpter Country Festival, as the inflatable bouncy houses broke loose and went airborne.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWest Sumpter$10,000Large tree limbs and powerlines down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Sumpter-Trees reported blown down.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindWest Sumpter-Numerous tree branches and small tree reported blown down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWest Sumpter-Several large tree limbs reported down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWest Sumpter-Multiple trees and large tree limbs were reported down.
July 2012HailWest Sumpter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Martinsville3.0 miles19
Roulo4.9 miles19
Edgewater Heights5.6 miles20
Belleville5.8 miles19
Willow6.1 miles17
New Boston6.3 miles19
Waltz6.4 miles17
Belleville North7.1 miles19

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 Q122542165The 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.