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Eagles Nest, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Menominee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49858. The Survey maps it on the Birch Creek quadrangle.

Eagles Nest within Menominee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Eagles Nest between 1993 and 2020, burning about 159 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural3
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
10 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 June 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMENOMINEE FD 0000284 - 2019
4 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMENOMINEE-INGALLSTON FD 0001925 - 2019
31 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMENOMINEE-INGALLSTON FD 0001829 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menominee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Eagles Nest: 1 producer. 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
Sobieski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Menominee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagles Nest in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 2 hail, 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 2023HailEagles Nest-A social media report from 4.1 miles northwest of Menominee of hail between 1.00 and 1.50 inches in diameter with continuous lightning and thunder from a severe thunderstorm. Hailed for less than five minutes total.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEagles Nest-A six to seven-inch diameter tree was uprooted.
August 2011HailEagles Nest-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Menominee 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
Birch Creek0.8 miles9
Kew2.2 miles9
Hansen3.4 miles9
Ingallston4.7 miles9
Menominee5.7 miles9
Carbondale6.1 miles8
Wallace9.4 miles8
Johnson Landing9.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617535. 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.

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.