BlockEdgewater, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49640. The Survey maps it on the Beulah quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Frankfort quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Frankfort NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Beulah quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Crystal Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Edgewater between 1995 and 2020, burning about 48 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 | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore | MARK |
| 29 July 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore | JACKPINE |
| 24 July 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore | LOON LAKE |
| 15 July 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore | LASSO ROAD |
| 11 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 June 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore | MUD LAKE |
| 1 June 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore | ILLINOIS ROAD |
| 9 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aral (historical) | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Averytown (historical) | 4.3 miles | 10 | |
| Beulah | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Honor | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Chimney Corners Resort | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Benzonia | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Oberlin (historical) | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Crystallia | 7.9 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2104390. 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.