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Weston, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49279. It stands on Weston Drain. The Survey maps it on the Jasper quadrangle. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Weston within Lenawee County

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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Weston between 2018 and 2019, burning about 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
13 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000052 - 2019
27 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000044 - 2019
27 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORENCI FD 0000066 - 2019
22 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON TOWNSHIP FD 0000666 - 2019
3 February 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000014 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Weston: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Packard Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Ruff's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weston in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 1999Thunderstorm WindWeston$16,000no account filed
August 2011HailWeston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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
Jasper3.4 miles10
Sand Creek3.8 miles10
Ridgeville4.1 miles10
Fairfield4.2 miles10
Seneca4.3 miles11
North Morenci6.7 miles11
Madison Center6.8 miles10
South Fairfield7.0 miles12

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 Q136348578The 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 1616220. 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.