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Cherry Bend, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Elmwood Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49684. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Traverse City SW quadrangle.

Cherry Bend within Leelanau County

On record in Cherry Bend

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Bend between 1994 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE METRO FD 193174 - 2019
26 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE METRO FD 193152 - 2019
18 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRAVERSE CITY FD 0002106 - 2018
12 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRAVERSE CITY FD 0002045 - 2018
11 August 1996Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources1800225 - 2018
27 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRAVERSE CITY FD 0001820 - 2019
2 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE METRO FD 182404 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leelanau County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Cherry Bend: 7 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Traverse City PlantIronProducer
Grand Traverse Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Harris PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Haywood Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Niedzielski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
The Concrete Service MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Walton Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Leelanau 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
Greilickville0.9 miles13
Crystal Spring2.1 miles13
Hatchs2.9 miles13
Fouch4.8 miles13
Heimforth5.5 miles13
Bingham5.8 miles13
Solon6.1 miles14
Leelanau Shores7.2 miles13

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 Q122553965The 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 623152. 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.