Elbow Lake, Michigan

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.

• 1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1968 USGS Skidway Lake quadrangle1:24000
• 1983 USGS Houghton Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Elbow Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 389 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 were 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Skidway Lake
• Greenwood
• Prescott

Every fire recorded in Ogemaw County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 625429. 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.