Bigelow, Michigan

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.

• 1949 USGS Lewiston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Lewiston quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1951 USGS Lewiston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Grayling quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Bigelow between 1994 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Donnelly
• Atlanta
• Hetherton

Every fire recorded in Montmorency County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bigelow: 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.

Every working recorded in Montmorency County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 621371. 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.