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Brissette Beach, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Kawkawlin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48631. The Survey maps it on the Kawkawlin quadrangle.

Brissette Beach within Bay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

20,653 words on this township

History of Bay County, Michigan with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Kawkawlin Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Kawkawlin Township - 20,653 words.

Fires near this place

18 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Brissette Beach between 2010 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Debris and open burning1

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
29 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONITOR TOWNSHIP FD 785 - 2019
25 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 334 - 2019
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 321 - 2019
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR TOWNSHIP FD 1160 - 2018
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR TOWNSHIP FD 1149 - 2018
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000255 - 2018
28 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000304 - 2018
15 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR TOWNSHIP FD 1004 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brissette Beach: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Winona Coal Co Shale ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Bay 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
Linwood Beach1.1 miles14
Killarney Beach1.4 miles14
Little Killarney Beach2.0 miles14
Linwood2.5 miles14
Tobico Beach2.6 miles14
Kawkawlin4.0 miles14
Lagoon Beach4.1 miles14
Donahue Beach4.7 miles14

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 Q122564112The 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 622004. 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.