Gibos Corners, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Orient Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49679. It stands on Browne Creek. The Survey maps it on the Merrill Lake quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Gibos Corners within Osceola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Merrill Lake quadrangle1:25000
1991 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Gibos Corners (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 244 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning	17
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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
7 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	46 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 1992	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 2020	Smoking	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EVART VFD 337 - 2020
24 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EVART VFD 446 - 2019
2 July 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osceola 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
Chippewa	2.5 miles	12
Sears	3.5 miles	12
Evart	6.6 miles	13
Avondale	11.7 miles	11
Hersey	15.8 miles	14
Slaybaugh Corner	15.9 miles	13
Pisgah Heights	16.9 miles	11
Marion	16.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 626781. 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.