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Dice Corners, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48640. The Survey maps it on the Gordonville quadrangle.

Dice Corners within Midland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Dice Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 5 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLINCOLN TOWNSHIP FD 0000169 - 2019
17 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 14
8 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOMER TOWNSHIP FD 0000183 - 2018
19 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND FD 9002895 - 2019
8 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 07
7 June 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 04 - WEST 11 MILE RD
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 03

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Midland 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
Floyd2.7 miles13
Gordonville3.1 miles13
Olson3.3 miles13
Averill3.9 miles13
Sanford4.2 miles13
Saint Elmo5.7 miles13
Midland6.5 miles13
Bullock Creek6.8 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 Q122550023The 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 624652. 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.