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Dollarville, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in McMillan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49868. The Survey maps it on the Newberry quadrangle. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

Dollarville within Luce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Dollarville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 29 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2001Fireworks3.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDUMP PILE
28 July 2012Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCORRAL FIRE
21 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLUCE 0002
20 July 2007Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAKI FIRE
7 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Luce County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dollarville: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
East Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Luce County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vertz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Luce 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
Newberry1.7 miles10
Natalie1.9 miles10
Roberts Corner4.4 miles10
Fourmile Corner5.0 miles10
Eightmile Corner5.4 miles10
Lencel6.0 miles10
McPhees Landing6.6 miles10
McMillan7.7 miles10

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.

Wikipedia article on DollarvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5289258The 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 624771. 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.