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Goodar, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Goodar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48761. The Survey maps it on the Goodar quadrangle.

Goodar within Ogemaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Goodar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 374 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony12
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestBRANCH
22 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestOHV
18 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestPIT
8 July 2001Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestLIBERTY ROAD
4 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestRACCOON
4 July 2020Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestRIVER
3 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestHAY
15 July 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCHAIN LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ogemaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Goodar: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Burge Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ogemaw 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
South Branch2.4 miles11
Shady Shores7.7 miles11
Lupton8.4 miles11
Fayettes Corner12.4 miles11
Camp Lu Lay Lea12.8 miles10
Rose City12.9 miles11
Selkirk15.8 miles10
Damon17.7 miles9

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 Q122594032The 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 1620038. 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.