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Freeman Landing, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marquette Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49855. It lies near Sugarloaf Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Marquette quadrangle.

Freeman Landing within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Freeman Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 8 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
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural8
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARQUETTE TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0000338 - 2019
8 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSURVIVOR MAN
3 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLD BEAGLE CLUB
28 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWETMORE POND WEST
9 August 2008Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBISMARK CREEK
4 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPOWELL TOWNSHIP FD 0000010 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Freeman Landing: 5 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold, Copper, Lead, Nickel. 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
Unnamed Copper ProspectGoldOccurrence
Unnamed Copper&Lead&Zinc ProspectCopper, Lead, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed Copper&Nickel&Lead ProspectCopper, Lead, NickelOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
City of Marquette PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
City of Marquette PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Herman Gunlach CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Marquette 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
Wetmore Landing0.2 miles18
Forestville2.3 miles18
Sugar Loaf2.3 miles18
Trowbridge Park4.6 miles18
Buckroe4.8 miles12
Brookton Corners4.8 miles18
Marquette6.4 miles18
Pioneer Estates7.0 miles18

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 Q122548634The 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 1617572. 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.