BlockGardner, Michigan
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Holmes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49821. The Survey maps it on the Banat quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Powers quadrangle1:62500
- 1982 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Banat quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
26 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Gardner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 July 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 7.3 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.4 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CHALK HILLS |
| 11 July 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 June 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 June 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.8 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 June 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 June 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 June 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
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 1617576. 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.