Arenac, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Arenac Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48658. The Survey maps it on the Omer quadrangle.

Arenac within Arenac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Omer quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Arenac between 1992 and 2020, burning about 361 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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
Debris and open burning	20
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
17 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ARENAC 07
11 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	17 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 August 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 June 1994	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 June 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 June 2017	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ARENAC 03
9 May 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arenac 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 Arenac: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Eastman Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Unnamed Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Arenac County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arenac in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Arenac	$500	Numerous large tree limbs were downed. The storm also produced pea sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Arenac 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pine River	2.2 miles	10
Omer	2.9 miles	10
Whites Beach	5.5 miles	10
Standish	5.6 miles	10
Saganing	6.0 miles	10
Twining	7.9 miles	10
Worth	7.9 miles	10
Sterling	8.9 miles	10

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 Q122590563

The 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 620208. 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.