Indianville, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Burt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49716. The Survey maps it on the Indianville quadrangle.

Indianville within Cheboygan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Mullett Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Indianville quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Indianville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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	13
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 August 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EMMET 08 - DAM FIRE
16 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHEBOYGAN 10 - ABANDONED CAMPFIRE
8 July 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2016	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.7 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EMMET 04

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cheboygan 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
Elmhurst	1.8 miles	12
Burt Lake	4.8 miles	12
Springwell Heights	5.5 miles	12
Wauban Beach	6.1 miles	12
Ingleside	6.2 miles	11
Chippewa Beach	6.4 miles	12
Topinabee	6.7 miles	12
Giauque Beach	6.7 miles	12

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 Q122539164

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 2100441. 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.