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Bodus, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Centerville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49621. The Survey maps it on the Good Harbor Bay quadrangle.

Bodus within Leelanau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Bodus between 1995 and 2020, burning about 64 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
15 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreOAK FIRE
4 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore651 BEACH ACCESS
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLELAND TOWNSHIP FIRE AND RESCUE 8664 - 2019
12 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCEDAR FD 07860 - 2019
9 July 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreGOODHARBOR
20 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLELAND TOWNSHIP FIRE AND RESCUE 4266 - 2019
16 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCEDAR FD 3925 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leelanau County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bodus: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Banasiak PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Leelanau County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Leelanau 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
Schomberg1.1 miles14
Isadore2.0 miles14
Cedar4.1 miles14
Leelanau Shores4.8 miles13
Heimforth5.2 miles13
Maple City5.2 miles14
Fountain Point6.0 miles13
Fouch6.0 miles13

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 Q122540272The 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 1617451. 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.