BlockArn, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Merritt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48747. The Survey maps it on the Reese quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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 Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Reese quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Flint quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Flint quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
6,098 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Merritt Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Merritt Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
7 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Arn between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | RICHVILLE FD 0000022 - 2019 |
| 25 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MERRITT TOWNSHIP FD 0000037 - 2019 |
| 1 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MERRITT TOWNSHIP FD 0000036 - 2018 |
| 9 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | REESE FIRE RESCUE 2019030 - 2019 |
| 22 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | REESE FIRE RESCUE 0000042 - 2018 |
| 20 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PORTSMOUTH TOWNSHIP FD 0000064 - 2020 |
| 22 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MERRITT TOWNSHIP FD 0000012 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Munger | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Essexville | 10.0 miles | 14 | |
| Bay City | 10.6 miles | 13 | |
| West Bay City | 11.1 miles | 13 | |
| Bangor (historical) | 11.1 miles | 14 | |
| Aplin Beach | 12.9 miles | 13 | |
| Donahue Beach | 13.5 miles | 14 | |
| Lagoon Beach | 14.1 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2547459. 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.