Farrar Landing, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49733. It lies near Redner Hill. The Survey maps it on the Turtle Lake quadrangle.

Farrar Landing within Otsego County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1949 USGS Otsego Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Turtle Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Turtle Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Grayling quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Farrar Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,119 acres in total. 1 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTSEGO 08 RAMONA ROAD
5 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,250 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 August 1992	Natural	15 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lower Chub Landing	1.4 miles	15
Whites Landing	2.7 miles	15
Waters	5.0 miles	16
Otsego Lake	5.4 miles	16
Arbutus Beach	6.4 miles	16
Oak Grove	7.8 miles	16
Eyedylwild Beach	7.9 miles	16
Pearll City	8.4 miles	16

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 Q122554464

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 1617552. 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.