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Yargerville, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in La Salle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48182. It stands on Middle Branch Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lambertville East quadrangle.

Yargerville within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

38 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Yargerville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 8 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 use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural8
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
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD FD 0001898 - 2018
29 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 284 - 2018
24 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 295 - 2020
10 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLUNA PIER FD 121 - 2020
30 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesERIE TOWNSHIP FD 260 - 2020
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLASALLE TOWNSHIP VFD 0000267 - 2019
20 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesERIE TOWNSHIP FD 261 - 2019
15 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONROE TOWNSHIP VFD 1129 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Yargerville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Otter Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Scotfield Tile Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yargerville in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2012Tornado (EF0)Yargerville$50,000A tornado was confirmed in central Monroe county. The tornado was rated an EF0, with maximum wind speeds of 85 mph. The estimated path length of the tornado is 0.5 miles with a maximum width of 50 yards. Damage occurred along Ida Center Road just east of Lewis Rd. The damage consisted of siding and shingles blown off a house, a tipped car, a shed destroyed and trees blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindYargerville$3,000Shingles reported blown off a roof.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindYargerville-A tree was reported blown down.

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
Ida Center2.8 miles19
Hillcrest Orchard3.0 miles18
Samaria3.2 miles19
Erie3.6 miles18
Temperance4.5 miles19
Vienna4.6 miles18
La Salle4.7 miles18
Ottawa4.9 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 Q122564434The 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 1616874. 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.