Cooperton, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Frost Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48625. It stands on South Branch Town Line Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cooperton quadrangle.

Cooperton within Clare County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Cooperton quadrangle1:25000
1983 USGS Houghton Lake quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Cooperton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 433 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1
Other causes	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
15 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARE 23
8 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	2.8 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARE 31
16 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROSCOMMON 05 - WACO RD.
10 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARE 16
1 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.6 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clare 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
Long Lake Heights	4.1 miles	11
Buck Trails	5.4 miles	11
Leota	5.6 miles	12
Piney Woods	5.9 miles	11
Airport Forest	7.1 miles	11
Rainbow Bend	7.5 miles	12
Ash Acres	8.4 miles	11
Harrison	9.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617500. 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.