BlockIndian Town, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Munising Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49862. The Survey maps it on the Indian Town quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1958 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Munising quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Munising quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Indian Town quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Indian Town between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 July 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 July 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore | MARSH |
| 22 June 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | WICKES POINT |
| 9 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 May 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MUNISING FD 0000038 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Indian Town: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linberg Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evelyn | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Doty | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Wetmore | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Juniper | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Munising | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Van Meer | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Williams Landing | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Shingleton | 6.5 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1620309. 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.