Damon, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Foster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48661. The Survey maps it on the Damon quadrangle.

Damon within Ogemaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Damon quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Houghton Lake quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

39 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Damon between 1993 and 2019, burning about 7,094 acres in total. 1 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 2001	Power generation/transmission/distribution	199 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	136 acres	Kirtlands Warbler National Wildlife Refuge	TURNEY RANCH ROAD
18 August 2002	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 August 2005	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	SHOTGUN CORNERS

Every fire recorded in Ogemaw 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
Rose City	7.1 miles	11
Fayettes Corner	8.5 miles	11
Lupton	11.2 miles	11
Campbells Corners	12.2 miles	11
Ogemaw Springs	12.5 miles	10
West Branch	13.9 miles	11
Selkirk	14.2 miles	10
Shady Shores	14.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1623732. 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.