Doty, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Munising Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49895. The Survey maps it on the Juniper quadrangle.

Doty within Alger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1931 USGS Munising SE quadrangle1:31680
1958 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Munising quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Munising quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Juniper quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Doty between 1993 and 2018, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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	2
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	1
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
25 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	MARSH
16 July 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 May 2018	Other causes	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	SHINGLETON 2 FIRE
20 April 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 April 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 April 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alger 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Evelyn	0.3 miles	12
Juniper	2.9 miles	12
Indian Town	3.5 miles	12
Shingleton	3.6 miles	12
Wetmore	4.7 miles	12
Van Meer	5.2 miles	11
Munising	6.8 miles	11
Myren	7.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1619748. 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.