BlockBiggs Settlement, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Comins Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48647. The Survey maps it on the Mio quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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 Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Mio quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Grayling quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
121 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Biggs Settlement between 1992 and 2020, burning about 246 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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 burning | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | BIG CEDAR #2 |
| 24 September 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | WIRE |
| 20 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | WILCOX RD |
| 19 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | BIG MAC ATTACK |
| 18 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | AU-SABLE CAMPGROUND |
| 11 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | WOODCHIP #3 |
| 11 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | WOODCHIP #2 |
| 11 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | WOODCHIP #1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122541374 | 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 1619210. 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.