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Emerson Station, Michigan

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Wilson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49744. The Survey maps it on the Lachine quadrangle.

Emerson Station within Alpena County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Emerson Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 79 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
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use8.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use8.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPENA 02 - BALER FIRE
6 June 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPENA 0008
24 June 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 1995Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPENA 0004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alpena 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
Paxton2.2 miles8
Herron2.9 miles7
McHarg2.9 miles8
Lachine3.4 miles7
Flanders4.9 miles7
Long Rapids5.6 miles7
Spratt6.3 miles7
Cathro8.4 miles7

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 Q122553992The 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 625573. 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.