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Gould City, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Newton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49838. The Survey maps it on the Gould City quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Gould City within Mackinac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Gould City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. None 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1992Arson/incendiarism1.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 June 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAKOKIA
28 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2012Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTRAPPER
19 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORTAGE TOWNSHIP VFD 0PT0720 - 2020
24 March 1995Debris and open burning3.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mackinac County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gould City: 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gould City Limestone ExposureStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Gould City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reuben Abram Excavating PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mackinac County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gould City in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2002: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2002Thunderstorm WindGould City-A few trees down.
August 2001HailGould City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mackinac 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
Corinne1.5 miles10
Engadine6.8 miles11
Curtis8.1 miles11
Huntspur9.1 miles11
Millecoquins10.4 miles11
Port Inland12.7 miles13
Naubinway13.2 miles10
Gilchrist16.9 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on Gould CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110682328The 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 627018. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.