Jacks Landing, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49696. It stands on Carpenter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jacks Landing quadrangle.

Jacks Landing within Grand Traverse County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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 Fife Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Jacks Landing quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Jacks Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 385 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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	13
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	1
Natural	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 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE 09
7 August 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.4 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE 07
13 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 August 1992	Natural	6.8 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE METRO FD 182464 - 2018
5 July 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse 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
Devils Elbow	1.8 miles	14
Mayfield	5.1 miles	13
Fivemile Corner	6.3 miles	13
Bates	6.9 miles	12
Acme	7.3 miles	12
Kingsley	7.4 miles	12
Williamsburg	7.5 miles	12
Fife Lake	8.6 miles	13

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 Q122569183

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 1617646. 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.