Birchwood Shores, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sims Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48703. It stands on Silver Drain. The Survey maps it on the Point Lookout quadrangle.

Birchwood Shores within Arenac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Point Lookout quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Birchwood Shores between 2003 and 2020, burning about 92 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
22 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ARENAC 06
28 April 2003	Debris and open burning	52 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 December 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	AUGRES-SIMS FD 0000070 - 2019
26 November 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	AUGRES-SIMS FD 0000063 - 2019
14 October 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	AUGRES-SIMS FD 0000055 - 2019
4 January 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arenac County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Birchwood Shores: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Duck Lake Limestone Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Arenac Co Pit # 1 Re Glancy	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
C & D Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Glancy Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Iosco Co Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Van Dusen Stone Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Arenac 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
Hammell Beach	0.9 miles	11
Glenwood Beach	2.0 miles	11
Whitestone Point	2.1 miles	11
Delano	2.2 miles	11
Wagner Beach	2.4 miles	11
Harmon City Heights	3.6 miles	11
Huron Heights	4.0 miles	11
Pine Wood Park	5.5 miles	11

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 Q122565886

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 621427. 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.