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Homestead, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sugar Island Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49783. The Survey maps it on the Oak Ridge OE E quadrangle.

Homestead within Chippewa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Homestead between 2004 and 2019, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
25 July 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWILLOW LANE
2 May 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUGAR ISLAND VFD 0001907 - 2019
28 April 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADVANCE ISLAND FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homestead in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2001: 1 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
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHomestead-Two ten inch diameter trees blown down.
August 2000HailHomestead-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chippewa 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
Oak Ridge5.8 miles14
Munuscong7.2 miles11
McCarron8.4 miles16
Barbeau9.1 miles16
Baie de Wasai10.7 miles14
Rosedale10.9 miles16
Kelden12.3 miles13
Churchville12.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 628516. 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.

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.