Green Garden, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chocolay Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49855. It stands on Foster Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harvey quadrangle.

Green Garden within Marquette 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.

1932 USGS Harvey NE quadrangle1:31680
1952 USGS Gwinn quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1958 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Gwinn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Green Garden between 1992 and 2019, burning about 38 acres in total. None 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
6 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 September 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHOCOLAY TOWNSHIP VFD 0006419 - 2019
22 August 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LAKE LEVASSEUR
7 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHOCOLAY TOWNSHIP VFD 0003318 - 2018
4 June 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 June 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette 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
Mangum	1.8 miles	14
Yalmar	3.0 miles	11
Beaver Grove	3.5 miles	14
Gordon	4.2 miles	11
Skandia	4.7 miles	11
New Dalton	5.3 miles	11
Lakewood	5.3 miles	14
Harvey	5.5 miles	14

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 Q122569682

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 1617596. 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.