BlockBay Park, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Akron Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48767. The Survey maps it on the Fish Point quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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 Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Fish Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bay Park between 2004 and 2019, burning about 77 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 68 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.7 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 December 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ACW-UNIONVILLE 1900056 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bay Park in 1 storm report in 1993: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bay Park | - | Numerous trees were blown down from the town of Bay Park to the town of Unionville. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakhurst | 1.4 miles | 10 | |
| Wisner | 2.7 miles | 9 | |
| Thomas | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Bradleyville | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Unionville | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Quanicassee | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Akron | 7.2 miles | 9 | |
| Fairgrove | 9.4 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 620786. 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.