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Black River, Michigan

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Alcona Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48721. It stands on Black River. The Survey maps it on the Black River quadrangle. It stands 587 feet above sea level.

Black River within Alcona County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Black River between 1993 and 2019, burning about 41 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Natural1
Other causes1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 August 2015Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 24 - LONE OAK
16 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSKIDDER FIRE ALCONA 07
15 June 2012Other causesunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 16 - WHOOF FIRE
6 May 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWORM SAYERS ALCONA 06
24 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 18 - HUSKY FIRE
4 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALCONA 09 BLISTER FLASH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alcona County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Black River in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBlack River$7,500At least five 12-18 inch size trees down on the property due to strong winds. Minor damage was done to one building as one tree fell against it.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBlack River-Several trees and power lines down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBlack River-Spotter reported wind gusts to 60 mph, resulting in downed trees and power lines in Black River.
June 2004HailBlack River-no account filed
July 2002HailBlack River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alcona 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Alcona4.0 miles8
Lost Lake Woods7.0 miles9
Spruce8.8 miles9
Lincoln10.8 miles11
Harrisville11.1 miles11
Larson Beach11.7 miles9
Springport12.6 miles11
Hubbard Lake13.4 miles9

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.

Wikipedia article on Black RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q136101909The 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 1619238. 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.