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Hessel, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Clark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49745. It lies near Haven Island. The Survey maps it on the Hessel quadrangle. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Hessel within Mackinac County

On record in Hessel

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hessel between 2003 and 2019, burning about 92 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
19 July 2015Recreation and ceremony6.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBAY CITY LAKE
10 July 2018Recreation and ceremony38 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLARK TOWNSHIP VFD 0201827 - 2018
14 June 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHiawatha National ForestBATTALION CEMETERY
16 May 2018Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH HESSEL
16 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH HESSEL
15 May 2018Natural32 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHESSEL
13 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLARK TOWNSHIP VFD 0201915 - 2019
1 May 2003Recreation and ceremony15 acresHiawatha National ForestEAST BOUNDARY ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mackinac County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hessel: 5 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
Mccready PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mike Mangene Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Taylor PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Whitehead Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mackinac County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hessel in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 2 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
May 2022HailHessel-Golf ball sized hail in Hessel. Time estimated by radar.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindHessel-Numerous 14-16 inch diameter trees down.
August 2008HailHessel-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
Patrick Landing2.9 miles10
Cedarville3.4 miles10
Rockview6.6 miles12
Port Dolomite8.1 miles10
Pontchartrain Shores9.0 miles11
Simmons11.0 miles11
Charles14.2 miles11
Fort Holmes14.3 miles10

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 Q136352793The 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 1620179. 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.