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Almeda Beach, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fraser Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48650. It stands on Johnson Drain. The Survey maps it on the Pinconning quadrangle.

Almeda Beach within Bay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

In the county-history sources

9,210 words on this township

History of Bay County Michigan, published 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Fraser Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Fraser Township - 9,210 words.

Fires near this place

14 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Almeda Beach between 2003 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined6
Natural3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
31 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMT FOREST TOWNSHIP FD 0000096 - 2019
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGARFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0190077 - 2019
12 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPINCONNING-FRASER FD 0000180 - 2019
5 May 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPINCONNING-FRASER FD 0000162 - 2019
15 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBAY 03
15 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBAY 02
15 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBAY 01
8 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPINCONNING-FRASER FD 0000158 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay 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
Meyers Beach0.7 miles9
Pinconning3.3 miles9
Linwood5.8 miles14
Woodville6.4 miles11
Linwood Beach6.6 miles14
Brissette Beach7.5 miles14
Nine Mile8.6 miles11
Killarney Beach8.6 miles14

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 Q122572021The 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 620007. 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.