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Cusino, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Hiawatha Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49884. The Survey maps it on the Cusino quadrangle.

Cusino within Schoolcraft County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Cusino between 2001 and 2011, burning about 2 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined2
Natural2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
20 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURRELL LAKE
13 September 2001Fireworksunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Schoolcraft County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cusino: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
State Pit # 225Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Schoolcraft 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
Pines7.8 miles12
Creighton8.0 miles12
Walsh11.5 miles9
Steuben18.5 miles11
Lavender Corner22.5 miles10
Seney23.0 miles12
Hiawatha23.2 miles11
Germfask26.6 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 Q122541063The 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 1617510. 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.