Garletts Corner, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in South Branch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49689. The Survey maps it on the Wellston NE quadrangle.

Garletts Corner within Wexford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1933 USGS Peacock NE quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1976 USGS Wellston NE quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Cadillac quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Wellston NE quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Garletts Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,091 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution	17
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	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 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	37 ARSON
5 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	PETERSON BRIDGE
19 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	48TH FIRE
17 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	12 MILE
8 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	LOG JAM
7 August 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	STRAWBERRY POINT
5 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CADILLAC DPS 0001453 - 2019
3 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	HE-HOOTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wexford 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
Hoxeyville	5.1 miles	14
Harrietta	8.3 miles	12
Yuma	9.0 miles	12
Boon	11.7 miles	12
Millersville	13.5 miles	12
Mesick	13.5 miles	12
Axin	13.6 miles	13
Bagnall	14.3 miles	12

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 Q122595758

The 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 1622669. 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.