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Dollar Settlement, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bay Mills Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49715. The Survey maps it on the Dollar Settlement quadrangle.

Dollar Settlement within Chippewa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Dollar Settlement between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2015Naturalunder an acreHiawatha National ForestFERN
9 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestRANGER ROAD 1
9 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestRANGER ROAD 2
6 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHiawatha National ForestSUPERIOR
10 July 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHiawatha National ForestIROQUOIS
25 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestMIDNIGHT RUN
15 June 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National ForestMISSION HILL FIRE #2
14 June 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dollar Settlement in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2019Thunderstorm WindDollar Settlement$6,000Multiple trees were downed along Lakeshore Drive.

Every storm recorded in Chippewa 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
Westons Iroquois Beach3.9 miles14
Raco6.0 miles14
Mission7.6 miles14
Dorgans Crossing8.0 miles14
Bay Mills8.4 miles14
Brimley9.7 miles14
Strongs14.2 miles15
Strongs Corner14.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1619735. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.