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Wheatland, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wheatland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49220. The Survey maps it on the Wheatland quadrangle.

Wheatland within Hillsdale 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

15 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Wheatland between 2018 and 2020, burning about 33 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
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
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
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000817 - 2018
5 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000553 - 2019
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000463 - 2019
6 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000457 - 2019
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000475 - 2018
3 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOMERSET TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 249 - 2020
25 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000518 - 2019
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000450 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsdale County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheatland in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWheatland-Two foot diameter tree branches down in roadway.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWheatland-A trained spotter reported a large tree was blown down onto Waldron Road.

Every storm recorded in Hillsdale 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
Jerome5.3 miles18
Somerset5.5 miles18
Somerset Center5.6 miles18
Lake LeAnn5.8 miles18
Locust Corners6.1 miles10
North Adams6.6 miles11
Moscow7.9 miles11
Pittsford8.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617938. 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.