Hockaday, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Butman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48624. The Survey maps it on the Wagarville quadrangle.

Hockaday within Gladwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Wagarville quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Houghton Lake quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

47 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Hockaday between 1993 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. 3 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	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	3
Other causes	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
24 September 2012	Other causes	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GLADWIN 15
2 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GLADWIN 02
6 July 2001	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 July 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GLADWIN 17
23 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	14 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gladwin 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 Hockaday: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Unnamed Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Gladwin 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
Sugar Rapids	1.0 miles	9
McClure	3.5 miles	9
Butman	4.1 miles	9
Oberlin	4.3 miles	9
Wagarville	4.5 miles	9
Secord	6.5 miles	10
Podunk	7.7 miles	9
Gladwin	8.0 miles	10

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 Q122561982

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 628365. 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.