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Deerheart Valley, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in South Branch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48653. The Survey maps it on the Roscommon North quadrangle.

Deerheart Valley within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Deerheart Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 298 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural3
Smoking2
Other causes1
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 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2003Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRAWFORD 10
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH BRANCH TOWNSHIP FD 0033585 - 2018
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHIGGINS TOWNSHIP FD 0000043 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Deerheart Valley: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
N.Roscommon Clay SampleFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

Every working 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
Pere Cheney4.5 miles13
Five Corners7.3 miles13
Skyline Village7.4 miles13
Babbits Resort9.3 miles13
Louis Cabin Landing9.5 miles14
Eldorado9.8 miles12
Wildwood10.3 miles13
Grayling11.5 miles14

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 Q122592850The 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 1619698. 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.