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Bowmanville, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Grim Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48610. The Survey maps it on the Sterling SW quadrangle.

Bowmanville within Gladwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Bowmanville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGLADWIN 09
6 June 2007Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2004Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gladwin 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
Hard Luck3.0 miles9
Secord7.1 miles10
Sugar Rapids8.5 miles9
Wooden Shoe Village9.3 miles10
White Star9.5 miles10
Hockaday9.6 miles9
McClure10.1 miles9
Highwood11.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617455. 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.