BlockEightmile Corner, 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 Auger Lake 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 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
- 1962 USGS Auger Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Manistique Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Eightmile Corner between 1997 and 2016, burning about 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DUMP PILE |
| 3 July 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.7 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 July 2003 | Natural | 5.1 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 July 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 June 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | POWERLINE |
| 24 May 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.8 acres | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fourmile Corner | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Natalie | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Dollarville | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Newberry | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| McMillan | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| McMillan Corner | 9.0 miles | 10 | |
| Laketon | 9.7 miles | 10 | |
| Roberts Corner | 9.7 miles | 10 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122594842 | The 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 1617539. 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.