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Barton City, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Hawes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48705. The Survey maps it on the Barton City quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Barton City within Alcona County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

48 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Barton City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 846 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Smoking2
Other causes2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestTWO TRACK
23 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestTISSUE PAPER
23 August 2003Naturalunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestLUCKY STRIKE
16 August 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 18 RC COLA FIRE
11 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestTROUT LAKE
5 July 2007Fireworksunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestJEWEL LK
3 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution3.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alcona County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Barton City: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
State Pit # 132Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Alcona County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barton City in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2013: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1999Tornado (F1)Barton City$250,000Continuation of Oscoda County tornado. Hundreds of trees down and 16 homes damaged.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBarton City$24,000Several trees were downed onto homes, and power outages were widespread.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindBarton City$6,000Scattered trees were downed in central Alcona County.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBarton City$2,000Trees and power lines were downed near the intersection of O'Donnell Road and M-72.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindBarton City-Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees around Hubbard Lake.
July 2013HailBarton City-no account filed
May 2011HailBarton City-no account filed
August 2011HailBarton City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alcona 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
Backus Beach6.1 miles9
Hubbard Lake6.1 miles9
Kurtz8.8 miles11
Killmaster8.9 miles11
Larson Beach9.1 miles9
Lincoln10.2 miles11
Cheviers10.6 miles11
Glennie10.6 miles11

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 Barton CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4865604The 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 620662. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.