BlockFibre, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Rudyard Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49780. It stands on Little Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fibre quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Fibre quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Sault Ste. Marie South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Fibre between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,062 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | TWO MONKEYS |
| 28 July 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | TOM'S LAST |
| 13 July 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | BABY FAUNCE |
| 10 July 2018 | Natural | 32 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | HESSEL |
| 2 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | TROUT FIRE |
| 6 May 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 54 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | SHED |
| 17 May 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1,832 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | CAMP FAUNCE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1619903. 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.