Hammond, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ocqueoc Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49759. The Survey maps it on the Ocqueoc quadrangle.

Hammond within Presque Isle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Onaway quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Petoskey quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Ocqueoc quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hammond between 2001 and 2018, burning about 37 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 burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
19 July 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	12 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PRESQUE ISLE 03 - GLASS MAKER
17 July 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 April 2009	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PRESQUE ISLE 03

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Presque Isle County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hammond: 1 producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	State of Michigan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Presque Isle County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hammond in 1 storm report in 1999: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hammond	-	Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Presque Isle 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
Bell Landing	2.0 miles	11
Huron Beach	3.0 miles	11
Evergreen Beach	3.1 miles	7
Manitou Beach	5.5 miles	7
Grace	6.2 miles	10
Ocqueoc	6.7 miles	11
Moltke	8.9 miles	7
Rainy Beach	10.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617604. 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.