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West Windsor, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Windsor Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48821. The Survey maps it on the Dimondale quadrangle.

West Windsor within Eaton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

23 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of West Windsor between 2016 and 2020, burning about 32 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/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Fireworks1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
26 September 2020Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWINDSOR TOWNSHIP EMERGENCY SERVICES 150 - 2020
21 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING FD 0014536 - 2019
14 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWINDSOR TOWNSHIP EMERGENCY SERVICES 0000170 - 2019
29 July 2016Fireworksunder an acreMichigan AgencyTREATMENT
19 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPOTTERVILLE-BENTON TWP FD 0000126 - 2019
15 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPOTTERVILLE-BENTON TWP FD 0000123 - 2019
13 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELHI TOWNSHIP FD 1829 - 2019
22 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWINDSOR TOWNSHIP EMERGENCY SERVICES 099 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eaton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of West Windsor: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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
Crandell Brothers Trucking Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Potterville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pryor Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Eaton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Windsor in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 hail. 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
May 2011HailWest Windsor-A trained spotter two miles north northwest of Dimondale reported that hail ranging from pea sized to nickel (three quarters inch diameter) fell for three minutes.

Every storm recorded in Eaton 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
Whaley Drain1.2 miles14
Potterville2.5 miles14
Dimondale2.6 miles14
Kingsland4.7 miles13
Millett5.4 miles14
Delta Center5.8 miles14
Oneida Center7.0 miles10
Waverly7.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1616194. 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.