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Ash Acres, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Hayes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48625. The Survey maps it on the Harrison quadrangle.

Ash Acres within Clare County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

199 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Ash Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 392 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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 burning65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use29
Arson/incendiarism18
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Fireworks4
Smoking4
Natural2
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2009Recreation and ceremony3.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLARE 22
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLARE 21
28 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2008Natural8.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLARE 16
19 August 2009Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLARE 20
17 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clare County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ash Acres: 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Larman Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mcculloch Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mcquestion Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weldon Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Clare 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
Airport Forest1.3 miles11
Harrison1.4 miles11
Piney Woods2.5 miles11
Allendale2.7 miles11
Long Lake Heights4.7 miles11
Buck Trails5.0 miles11
Hatton7.9 miles12
Leota8.1 miles12

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 Q122548285The 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 620262. 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.