Averytown, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Benzonia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49640. It stands on North Branch Platte River. The Survey maps it on the Beulah quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Averytown within Benzie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Frankfort quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Frankfort NE quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Beulah quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Crystal Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Averytown (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 2 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	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
25 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENZONIA TOWNSHIP FD 19034 - 2019
15 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	MARK
24 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	LOON LAKE
2 July 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 July 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	LASSO ROAD
11 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 June 2007	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 June 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOMESTEAD TOWNSHIP FD 0005468 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benzie 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
Honor	1.3 miles	10
Beulah	3.9 miles	10
Edgewater	4.3 miles	10
Benzonia	4.7 miles	11
Platte River	5.7 miles	15
Aral (historical)	6.5 miles	10
Weldon	7.4 miles	11
Chimney Corners Resort	9.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1951748. 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.