BlockBristol, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Dover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49688. The Survey maps it on the Bristol quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1933 USGS Luther SE quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Luther quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Cadillac quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Bristol quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
24 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Bristol between 1992 and 2020, burning about 107 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | DIRTY HOTDOG BUN |
| 7 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | WHOOPIE SPOT |
| 4 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LEROY-ROSE LAKE FD 2019095 - 2019 |
| 4 July 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OSCEOLA 02 - JUNK FIRE |
| 30 July 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | DOVER #1 |
| 9 June 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bristol in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Hail | Bristol | $10,000 | Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported in Bristol. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1623726. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.