BlockBanat, Michigan
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Holmes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49887. The Survey maps it on the Banat quadrangle. It stands 182 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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 Escanaba quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Powers quadrangle1:62500
- 1982 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Banat quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
35 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Banat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 July 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 7.3 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.4 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHALK HILLS |
| 6 June 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 June 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.8 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 June 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 June 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Banat in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Banat | $20,000 | At 6:47 pm, a tornado touched down approximately 4 miles west of Banat in a forested area west of County Road 356. The EF-0 tornado was approximately 125 yards wide as it tore a quarter-mile path through forested areas and across County Road 356. With winds estimated at 80 mph, the tornado uprooted or snapped more than fifty large trees (diameter in excess of a foot and height greater than 50 feet) along its path before dissipating over forested swampland. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Banat | $5,000 | Approximately one-foot diameter trees reported down...along with multiple reports of power lines down. Various 6-8 inch diameter branches were also reported down. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Banat | $500 | There was a public report of a large tree broken near the base near the town of Banat. The tree was estimated to be ten inches in diameter. |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Banat | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4853964 | 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 620537. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.