Green Timbers, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Corwith Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49795. It stands on Pickerel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Green Timbers quadrangle.

Green Timbers within Otsego County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 Gaylord quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Petoskey quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Green Timbers quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Green Timbers between 1992 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
7 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TUSCARORA TOWNSHIP VFD 0000139 - 2019
23 August 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHEBOYGAN 09 - MILE MARKER 297
16 July 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTSEGO 06 - SMALL POTATO
9 June 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTSEGO 10

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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
Vanderbilt	6.6 miles	12
Sparr	9.1 miles	12
Gaylord	12.2 miles	14
Johannesburg	13.6 miles	14
Pearll City	15.1 miles	16
Oak Grove	15.7 miles	16
Vienna Corners	16.6 miles	16
Eyedylwild Beach	16.9 miles	16

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 Q122589001

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 1617598. 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.