Cordell, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Trout Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49793. The Survey maps it on the Ozark NE quadrangle.

Cordell within Chippewa 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 Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Ozark NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Sault Ste. Marie South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cordell between 1995 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 2 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	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
25 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	PUDDLE
5 August 2014	Natural	2.5 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	EVEN ODDS
22 August 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	TWO MONKEYS
15 August 2003	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	BACKHOE
28 July 2004	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	TOM'S LAST
10 July 2018	Natural	32 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	HESSEL
2 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	TROUT FIRE
6 May 1995	Recreation and ceremony	11 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	SWEIGER CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa 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
Dick	0.9 miles	11
Fibre	6.4 miles	12
Trout Lake	9.1 miles	12
Dryburg	9.2 miles	12
Strongs Corner	12.6 miles	15
Strongs	13.3 miles	15
Rudyard	13.4 miles	11
Raco	14.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1619583. 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.