Buck Trails, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Summerfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48625. The Survey maps it on the Harrison quadrangle.

Buck Trails within Clare County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:25000
1983 USGS Houghton Lake quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Buck Trails between 1992 and 2020, burning about 320 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Arson/incendiarism	12
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Smoking	4
Fireworks	3
Other causes	3
Natural	2

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 2009	Recreation and ceremony	3.1 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARE 22
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARE 21
2 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARE 23
9 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HARRISON COMMUNITY FD 220 - 2019
8 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	2.8 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 August 2008	Natural	8.4 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARE 16

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clare 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
Leota	3.1 miles	12
Piney Woods	3.3 miles	11
Rainbow Bend	3.9 miles	12
Airport Forest	4.4 miles	11
Long Lake Heights	4.4 miles	11
Ash Acres	5.0 miles	11
Cooperton	5.4 miles	11
Harrison	6.5 miles	11

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 Q122551890

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 622183. 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.