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Whiteford Center, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Whiteford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49267. The Survey maps it on the Lambertville West quadrangle.

Whiteford Center within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

21 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Whiteford Center between 2018 and 2020, burning about 29 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 use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
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
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITEFORD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000190 - 2019
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 1800073 - 2018
28 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD FD 0001429 - 2019
6 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD FD 0000973 - 2019
6 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD FD 0000977 - 2019
9 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTTAWA LAKE FD 0000055 - 2019
5 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD FD 0000740 - 2019
3 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMMERFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 116 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Whiteford Center: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Limestone, General. 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
Little Sink Quarry LimestoneLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Ottawa Lake QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rhu's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whiteford Center in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 2 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
March 2012HailWhiteford Center-no account filed
April 1996HailWhiteford Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Saint Anthony2.1 miles16
Lambertville3.0 miles16
Liberty Corners5.4 miles16
Samaria6.0 miles19
Temperance6.1 miles19
Petersburg Junction7.6 miles16
Lulu8.1 miles18
Ida Center8.6 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 Q122538928The 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 1616360. 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.