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Faunus, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Spalding Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49873. It stands on Kimberley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Helps quadrangle.

Faunus within Menominee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Faunus between 1992 and 2014, burning about 29 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPACH RD
3 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMENOMINEE 0003
28 August 2003Natural1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 1994Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution3.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCEDAR FIRE
29 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLSON RD.
18 May 2014Equipment and vehicle use4.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMENOMINEE 0001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menominee 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
LaBranche2.4 miles8
Helps5.4 miles9
Whitney8.0 miles8
Vega8.9 miles9
Perronville10.5 miles9
Leapers12.2 miles9
Eustis13.0 miles9
Hermansville13.5 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.

Wikipedia article on FaunusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20657786The 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 1617553. 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.