Bay Mills, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bay Mills Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49715. The Survey maps it on the Brimley quadrangle.

Bay Mills within Chippewa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1941 USGS Brimley quadrangle1:63360
1951 USGS Brimley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Brimley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Sault Ste. Marie South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Bay Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 85 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 July 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	SUPERIOR
28 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP VFD 2018-30 - 2018
23 July 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Agency	YARD
22 July 2005	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Agency	LEVI
19 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP VFD 2018-28 - 2018
19 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Agency	ROADSIDE
18 July 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Agency	11891
4 June 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Agency	GUMSHOE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa 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
Mission	1.0 miles	14
Brimley	2.3 miles	14
Dorgans Crossing	3.2 miles	14
Westons Iroquois Beach	5.8 miles	14
Shallows	7.8 miles	16
Dollar Settlement	8.4 miles	14
Raco	8.5 miles	14
Dafter	9.9 miles	15

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 Q122561007

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 620785. 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.