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Buckroe, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marquette Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49855. It stands on Little Garlic River. The Survey maps it on the Buckroe quadrangle.

Buckroe within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Buckroe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
3 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLD BEAGLE CLUB
28 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLITTLE GARLIC FALL
9 August 2008Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBISMARK CREEK
4 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPOWELL TOWNSHIP FD 0000010 - 2019
31 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHLIFE
23 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARQUETTE FIRE/RESCUE 201427 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Buckroe: 4 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Copper, Silver. 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
Daniel Sec 30 Gold ProspectSilver, Gold, CopperOccurrence1891, 1903
Daniel Sec 5 Gold ProspectGoldProspect1898
Unnamed Copper&Lead&Zinc ProspectCopper, Lead, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed Gold&Copper&Silver ProspectCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Unnamed Silver and Copper ProspectCopper, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckroe in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBuckroe$3,000Dispatch was informed of downed trees across County Road 550 near Eagles Nest Road. Time of the report was estimated from radar.

Every storm recorded in Marquette 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
Birch3.4 miles12
Freeman Landing4.8 miles18
Wetmore Landing5.0 miles18
Forestville6.9 miles18
Sugar Loaf7.1 miles18
Antlers9.0 miles12
Trowbridge Park9.2 miles18
Brookton Corners9.2 miles18

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 Q122591222The 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 622199. 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.

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.