Buttersville, Michigan

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• S.S. BADGER (carferry)National Historic Landmark · listed 2009 · 0.3 miles away
• Ludington United States Coast Guard Stationlisted 2010 · 0.2 miles away
• Mason County Courthouselisted 1988 · 0.9 miles away
• Ludington North Breakwater Lightlisted 2005 · 0.9 miles away
• William A. and Catherine Cartier Houselisted 2014 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1932 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:31680
• 1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1983 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:100000
• 1983 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:25000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Buttersville between 2005 and 2019, burning about 64 acres 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Epworth Assembly
• Ludington
• North Epworth
• White Pine Village
• Amber
• Riverton (historical)

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Buttersville: 3 producers, 3 past producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Bromine, Calcium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Mason County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617470. 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.