Cedar Bank, Michigan

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

Cedar Bank within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1932 USGS Harvey SE quadrangle1:31680
1952 USGS Gwinn quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1958 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Gwinn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Little Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Bank between 1992 and 2020, burning about 168 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1
Natural	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
13 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SKANDIA-WEST BRANCH FD 0000024 - 2019
29 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SPORLEY TRAIL
10 August 2008	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	STIENBERG SPITTERS
1 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.6 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LITTLE LAKE FIRE
20 July 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SKANDIA-WEST BRANCH FD 0000015 - 2019
2 July 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BOB
5 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FORSYTH TOWNSHIP FD 0001852 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Carlshend	2.6 miles	11
Little Lake	4.0 miles	14
Helena	5.4 miles	12
Swanzy	5.7 miles	14
Skandia	5.7 miles	11
Maple Grove	5.8 miles	11
Vick	6.1 miles	11
Skandia Station	6.3 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 Q122596545

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 1617479. 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.