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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1941 USGS Brimley quadrangle1:63360
- 1951 USGS Brimley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Dollar Settlement quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Sault Ste. Marie South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
18 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | FERN |
| 9 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | RANGER ROAD 1 |
| 9 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | RANGER ROAD 2 |
| 6 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | SUPERIOR |
| 10 July 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | IROQUOIS |
| 25 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | MIDNIGHT RUN |
| 15 June 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | MISSION HILL FIRE #2 |
| 14 June 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dollar Settlement | $6,000 | Multiple trees were downed along Lakeshore Drive. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westons Iroquois Beach | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Raco | 6.0 miles | 14 | |
| Mission | 7.6 miles | 14 | |
| Dorgans Crossing | 8.0 miles | 14 | |
| Bay Mills | 8.4 miles | 14 | |
| Brimley | 9.7 miles | 14 | |
| Strongs | 14.2 miles | 15 | |
| Strongs Corner | 14.6 miles | 15 |
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.







