Canby Corners, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49755. It stands on Collins Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bliss quadrangle.

Canby Corners within Emmet 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.

1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Pellston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1982 USGS Bliss quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Canby Corners between 1994 and 2019, burning about 109 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	4
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1
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
3 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EMMET 10 - CANBY RD.
22 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EMMET 05 - PLEASANTVIEW GRAVEL PIT
24 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 May 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 May 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 May 1995	Recreation and ceremony	5.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 April 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emmet 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
Bliss	3.5 miles	11
Marsh Corner	4.0 miles	11
Cross Village	6.5 miles	12
Levering	6.8 miles	11
Van	7.6 miles	11
Cecil	8.9 miles	11
Pleasant View	8.9 miles	11
Pellston	9.0 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 Q122594193

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 1617258. 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.