Boulder Park, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Charlevoix Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49720. It stands on Pine River. The Survey maps it on the Charlevoix quadrangle.

Boulder Park within Charlevoix County

On record in Boulder Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Charlevoiz South Pierhead Lightlisted 2005 · 0.8 miles away
Charlevoix Central Historic Districtlisted 2025 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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 Charlevoix quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Charlevoix quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Charlevoix quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Boulder Park between 1992 and 2009, burning about 89 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
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
11 May 1992	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 April 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLEVOIX 01
14 April 2003	Debris and open burning	83 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 November 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLEVOIX 04

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlevoix 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 Boulder Park: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Limestone, General. 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	Recorded
Medusa Cement	Limestone, General	Producer	1968
Newaygo Prtlnd Cmnt Co Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unnamed Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Charlevoix Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
City Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Medusa Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Charlevoix 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
Charlevoix	1.1 miles	13
Charlevoix Estates	1.6 miles	13
Barnard	4.5 miles	13
Ironton	6.3 miles	13
Phelps	6.5 miles	13
Burgess	6.8 miles	13
Norwood	8.6 miles	11
Bay Shore	10.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 621403. 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.