Gardenville, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Soo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49783. It lies near Island Number One. The Survey maps it on the Sault Ste. Marie South quadrangle.

Gardenville within Chippewa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1913 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:63360
1951 USGS Sault Ste. Marie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1951 USGS Sault Ste. Marie South 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Gardenville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOO TOWNSHIP FD 0031-19 - 2019
9 June 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRUCE TOWNSHIP VFD 2019008 - 2019
22 June 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRUCE TOWNSHIP VFD 2016006 - 2019
6 May 1992	Debris and open burning	39 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 May 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAST 5 MILE
5 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SPRING PEEPER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa 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 Gardenville: 8 producers, 1 past producer. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Beadle's Brick Yard Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Montero Sand Pit	Silica	Producer
C G Sanderson No. 1 Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
City Limits Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fornicola Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gordon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
I L Whitehead Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Montero Excavating Inc Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Osborn Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Chippewa 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lake Superior Estates	2.6 miles	16
Baie de Wasai	3.0 miles	14
Sault Sainte Marie	3.2 miles	16
Brassar	5.4 miles	11
Rosedale	6.1 miles	16
Shallows	7.6 miles	16
McCarron	9.1 miles	16
Dafter	9.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 626643. 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.