British Landing, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Mackinac Island City. It lies in ZIP code area 49757. It stands on Browns Brook. The Survey maps it on the Evergreen Shores quadrangle.

British Landing within Mackinac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1931 USGS St Ignace NW quadrangle1:31680
1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Evergreen Shores quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of British Landing between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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	3
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
25 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	ROUND ISLAND
23 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST IGNACE VFD 2019077 - 2019
2 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	AIRPORT
20 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	CHEESEMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mackinac 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fort Holmes	2.0 miles	10
Fort Mackinac	2.2 miles	10
Mackinac Island	2.4 miles	10
Saint Ignace	4.4 miles	10
Evergreen Shores	5.1 miles	11
Gros Cap	9.7 miles	10
Charles	9.8 miles	11
Pontchartrain Shores	10.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617462. 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.