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Barker Creek, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Clearwater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49690. It stands on Barker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Torch River quadrangle.

Barker Creek within Kalkaska County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Barker Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 270 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning17
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

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
27 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 05 - ROOTS LAKE
10 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2007Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2004Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2001Fireworks3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalkaska County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barker Creek in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBarker Creek$25,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed by the wind, blocking many roads and creating power outages that lasted for nearly two days.

Every storm recorded in Kalkaska 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
Rapid City4.1 miles12
Torch River4.9 miles12
Kalkaska8.0 miles15
Crofton8.4 miles15
Leetsville9.0 miles14
South Boardman9.7 miles14
Houseman11.5 miles13
Lodi12.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617432. 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.