Indiantown, Michigan

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Harris Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49896. It stands on Houle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wilson quadrangle.

Indiantown within Menominee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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 Escanaba quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Bark River quadrangle1:62500
1982 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Wilson quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

62 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Indiantown between 1993 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. None 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Fireworks	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
3 August 2001	Debris and open burning	3.4 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SPRING CREEK
22 July 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 July 2013	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Agency	BOTTLE ROCKET
7 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.4 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BELLY-FULL
26 May 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Agency	004
17 May 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Agency	BLANKET
15 May 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Agency	010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menominee 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 Indiantown: 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
	Menominee County Piche Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Menominee 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
Houle	1.0 miles	7
Harris	1.7 miles	9
Wilson	3.2 miles	7
Hannahville	3.9 miles	9
Eustis	4.3 miles	9
Perronville	6.6 miles	9
Spalding	7.1 miles	7
Gourley	8.0 miles	7

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.

Wikipedia article on Indiantown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20657865	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 1617639. 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.