Birchwood, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Mullett Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49721. It stands on Birchwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mullett Lake quadrangle.

Birchwood within Cheboygan 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.

1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Mullett Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Mullett Lake quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Birchwood between 1994 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 July 2017	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHEBOYGAN 09 POLISH LINE
31 July 2004	Natural	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 July 1996	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 June 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 June 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 May 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 May 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 May 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.3 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHEBOYGAN 0005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cheboygan 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
Silver Beach	0.7 miles	11
Long Point	1.3 miles	11
Mullett Lake	1.7 miles	11
Veery Point	2.3 miles	11
Aloha	3.8 miles	12
Royal Oak Beach	3.9 miles	12
Mullett Lake Woods	4.0 miles	12
Orchard Beach	4.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 621423. 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.