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Carlshend, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Skandia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49885. The Survey maps it on the Carlshend quadrangle.

Carlshend within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Carlshend between 1994 and 2019, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
31 July 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAY FIRE
2 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSKANDIA-WEST BRANCH FD 0000015 - 2019
15 June 2005Naturalunder an acreHiawatha National ForestDUKES
22 May 1994Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSKI HILL ROAD
18 May 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFARMER LAKE
6 April 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLY SMOKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlshend in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 2 hail, 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
April 2001Thunderstorm WindCarlshend-Numerous 6 inch diameter poplar trees broken off.
July 2006HailCarlshend-no account filed
July 2006HailCarlshend-no account filed

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
Cedar Bank2.6 miles14
Maple Grove3.4 miles11
Vick3.5 miles11
Selma4.1 miles11
Dukes4.2 miles11
Skandia Station4.6 miles11
Lawson4.7 miles11
Skandia4.7 miles11

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 Q122567875The 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 622726. 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.

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.