BlockBostwick Lake, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cannon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49341. The Survey maps it on the Cannonsburg quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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 Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Cannonsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
30 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Bostwick Lake between 1994 and 2020, burning about 39 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/undetermined | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CANNON TOWNSHIP FD 518 - 2020 |
| 23 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CANNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000526 - 2019 |
| 20 August 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CANNON TOWNSHIP FD 458 - 2020 |
| 28 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CANNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000300 - 2018 |
| 17 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COURTLAND FD 0000192 - 2018 |
| 7 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CANNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000191 - 2018 |
| 13 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CANNON TOWNSHIP FD 257 - 2020 |
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CANNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000176 - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cannonsburg | 2.4 miles | 10 | |
| Parnell | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Grattan | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Chauncey | 5.8 miles | 16 | |
| Rockford | 6.3 miles | 16 | |
| Moseley | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Childsdale | 7.0 miles | 16 | |
| Alton | 7.1 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 621759. 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.