Ishaward, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Frederic Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49733. The Survey maps it on the Frederic quadrangle.

Ishaward within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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 Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Alba quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Grayling quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Frederic quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Ishaward between 1994 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
1 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CRAWFORD 18
20 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CRAWFORD 11
14 August 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LOVELLS TOWNSHIP FD 0040330 - 2019
10 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	22 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KALKASKA 06 - COMMERCIAL FLIGHT FIRE
10 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	COLDSPRINGS-EXCELSIOR FIRE/RESCUE 1920849 - 2019
1 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CRAWFORD 13 POST ROAD
2 July 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BLUE LAKE TOWNSHIP FD 0020679 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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
Deward	2.0 miles	13
Frederic	5.1 miles	13
Forbush Corner	7.3 miles	14
McIntyre Landing	10.4 miles	14
Danish Landing	11.2 miles	14
Collens Landing	12.2 miles	14
Grayling	12.4 miles	14
Lake Margrethe	12.4 miles	14

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 Q122562154

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 1617644. 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.