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Five Corners, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Grayling Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49738. The Survey maps it on the Wakeley Lake quadrangle.

Five Corners within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Five Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,042 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
3 September 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAYLING FD 2018425 - 2018
2 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2016Debris and open burning1.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRAWFORD 16
2 August 2004Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAYLING FD 2018324 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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
Wildwood3.4 miles13
Babbits Resort4.9 miles13
Louis Cabin Landing6.1 miles14
Pere Cheney7.1 miles13
Deerheart Valley7.3 miles14
Eldorado7.4 miles12
Bucks8.0 miles13
Grayling10.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1619921. 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.