BlockBlue Water Beach, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It lies in ZIP code area 48450. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jeddo quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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 Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Jeddo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Croswell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Blue Water Beach between 2018 and 2019, burning about 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CROSWELL FD 2019094 - 2019 |
| 1 May 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LEXINGTON FIRE/RESCUE 0000122 - 2018 |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birch Beach | 0.4 miles | 10 | |
| Huronia Heights | 0.5 miles | 10 | |
| Great Lakes Beach | 0.8 miles | 10 | |
| Lexington Heights | 1.3 miles | 10 | |
| Amadore | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Lexington | 4.3 miles | 10 | |
| Croswell | 7.3 miles | 10 | |
| Pine Hill (historical) | 10.5 miles | 10 |
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 Q122567750 | 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 621647. 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.