BlockBrassar, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sugar Island Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49783. It stands on McFarland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Payment quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1951 USGS Payment quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Sault Ste. Marie North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Brassar between 2010 and 2019, burning about 41 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SPRING PEEPER |
| 30 May 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUGAR ISLAND VFD 0001908 - 2019 |
| 12 May 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 13 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HILL TOP |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baie de Wasai | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Payment | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Churchville | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Gardenville | 5.4 miles | 16 | |
| Sault Sainte Marie | 6.8 miles | 16 | |
| Lake Superior Estates | 7.5 miles | 16 | |
| Rosedale | 10.5 miles | 16 | |
| Shallows | 12.2 miles | 16 |
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 Q122593120 | 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 1617459. 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.