Babbits Resort, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Grayling Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49738. The Survey maps it on the Wakeley Lake quadrangle.

Babbits Resort within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1949 USGS Grayling quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Wakeley Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Grayling quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Babbits Resort between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,032 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	49
Debris and open burning	37
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Arson/incendiarism	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Fireworks	2
Natural	2
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
8 September 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAYLING FD 2018425 - 2018
2 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	115 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CRAWFORD 16
2 August 2004	Natural	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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
Louis Cabin Landing	1.3 miles	14
Wildwood	3.7 miles	13
Five Corners	4.9 miles	13
Grayling	5.4 miles	14
Bucks	6.0 miles	13
Pere Cheney	6.3 miles	13
Skyline Village	8.2 miles	13
Lake Margrethe	8.5 miles	14

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 Q122551828

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 1622893. 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.