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Fort Wayne, Michigan

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Detroit City. It lies in ZIP code area 48209. It stands on River Rouge. The Survey maps it on the Detroit quadrangle.

Fort Wayne within Wayne County

On record in Fort Wayne

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 22 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

91 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Fort Wayne between 2018 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 7 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
Debris and open burning39
Equipment and vehicle use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony5
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
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEARBORN FD 0010923 - 2018
3 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0031432 - 2019
28 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0035675 - 2018
23 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0034275 - 2019
19 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0033618 - 2019
15 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0033077 - 2019
7 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0028065 - 2019
4 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0028540 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fort Wayne: 7 producers, 2 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Salt, Halite, Vermiculite. 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
Clippert Brick and Tile Co. PitClayPast Producer
Cummings-Moore GraphiteGraphiteProducer
Detroit MineSaltProducer
Detroit Salt MineHaliteProducer1895, 1910
Mclouth Steel Gibralter Roll'G MillIronProducer
Stroble Primary Aluminum PlantAluminumPast Producer
Wr Grace Zonolite DivVermiculiteProducer
Detroit Lime Co Calcining PlantCalciumProducer
River Rouge LimekilnCalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne 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
Delray1.1 miles22
River Rouge2.7 miles20
Detroit3.5 miles22
Melvindale4.4 miles20
Dearborn4.5 miles20
Ecorse4.6 miles19
Lincoln Park5.5 miles20
Wyandotte6.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617568. 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.