Indiantown, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Buena Vista Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48601. It stands on English Drain. The Survey maps it on the Saginaw NE quadrangle.

Indiantown within Saginaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1919 USGS Saginaw quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1941 USGS Saginaw quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Saginaw quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Saginaw NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Flint quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Flint quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

20 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Indiantown between 2018 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	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
25 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MERRITT TOWNSHIP FD 0000037 - 2019
10 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BUENA VISTA FD 1407 - 2019
7 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SAGINAW FD 2571 - 2018
6 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BUENA VISTA FD 1147 - 2019
5 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SAGINAW FD 2545 - 2018
29 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BUENA VISTA FD 1280 - 2018
25 July 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ZILWAUKEE CITY FD 146 - 2019
22 July 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BUENA VISTA FD 1264 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saginaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Indiantown: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
	E.Saginaw Clay Sample	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Prospect
	Saginaw Mill	Limestone, General	Producer

Every working recorded in Saginaw 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
Crow Island	3.6 miles	16
Zilwaukee	4.5 miles	16
Buena Vista	4.9 miles	16
Carrollton	5.0 miles	16
Frankentrost	5.1 miles	16
Kochville	6.1 miles	13
Saginaw	7.1 miles	16
Blumfield Corners	7.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 629028. 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.