BlockBagnall, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Wexford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49668. It lies near Sneaky Valley. The Survey maps it on the Harlan quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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 Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Copemish quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Cadillac quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
34 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Bagnall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 2004 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SPRINGVILLE TOWNSHIP FD ST19051 - 2019 |
| 8 July 2020 | Other causes | 5.7 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEXFORD 03 - XMAS FIRE |
| 29 July 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEXFORD 04 - 8 RD FIRE |
| 7 June 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 June 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
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.
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 Q122539222 | 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 1622870. 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.