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Fayettes Corner, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cumming Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48654. It stands on Wilkins Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rose City quadrangle.

Fayettes Corner within Ogemaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Fayettes Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2007Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestJINX
9 June 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOGEMAW 04 - BLOW OUT FIRE
18 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOGEMAW 08 - POWERLINE FIRE
14 June 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestGIBBY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ogemaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fayettes Corner: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fitzgerald and Powell Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ogemaw County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ogemaw 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
Rose City1.5 miles11
Lupton4.1 miles11
Shady Shores6.4 miles11
Selkirk6.7 miles10
Camp Lu Lay Lea6.7 miles10
Campbells Corners7.0 miles11
Damon8.5 miles9
South Branch11.7 miles11

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 Q122549449The 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 1619892. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.