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Danish Landing, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Grayling Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49738. It lies near Mount Franklin. The Survey maps it on the Lake Margrethe quadrangle.

Danish Landing within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Danish Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,701 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use18
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Other causes1
Natural1

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRANGE 16 KALKASKA 06
19 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRANGE #8, CRAWFORD 20
12 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRANGE #8 CRAWFORD 19
12 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution2.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRAWFORD 13 RANGE #8
7 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLOVELLS TOWNSHIP FD 0039329 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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
Collens Landing1.0 miles14
Lake Margrethe1.2 miles14
McIntyre Landing1.6 miles14
Rasmus1.9 miles14
Grayling3.5 miles14
Skyline Village7.2 miles13
Louis Cabin Landing7.6 miles14
Frederic8.5 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 Q122552078The 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 624303. 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.