BlockBrady Center, Michigan
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brady Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48649. The Survey maps it on the Chesaning West quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1917 USGS Chesaning quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Chesaning quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Chesaning West quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Alma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Brady Center between 2003 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 3 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 | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 April 2020 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHESANING-BRADY FD 37 - 2020 |
| 22 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHESANING-BRADY FD 51 - 2018 |
| 19 April 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHESANING-BRADY FD 33 - 2020 |
| 15 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 42 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TRI-TOWNSHIP FD 40 - 2020 |
| 28 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHESANING-BRADY FD 41 - 2019 |
| 27 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TRI-TOWNSHIP FD 0000043 - 2019 |
| 5 February 2020 | Natural | 50 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHESANING-BRADY FD 8 - 2020 |
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.
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 Q122588446 | 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 1617458. 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.