BlockGolden, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sagola Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49815. The Survey maps it on the Channing quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1899 USGS Sagola quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Channing quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Sagola quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1989 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Golden between 1992 and 2019, burning about 65 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | YARDMAN |
| 24 June 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SAGOLA TOWNSHIP VFD 0000017 - 2019 |
| 18 June 2010 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TURKEY SHOT |
| 9 May 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | 45 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2009 | Natural | 5.6 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | STURGEON ROAD FIRE |
| 25 May 1996 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 May 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | 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 1617589. 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.