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Karlin, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49643. It lies near Twin Mountains. The Survey maps it on the Karlin quadrangle.

Karlin within Grand Traverse County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Karlin between 1993 and 2020, burning about 270 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
11 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources18410 - 2018
31 July 2017Natural55 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENZIE 01 GRASS LAKE MARSH
23 July 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINLAND TWP FD 85 - 2020
22 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHOMPSONVILLE VFD 1900034 - 2019
7 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2005Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse 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 Karlin: 2 producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Beeman Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kidder PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Grand Traverse County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Karlin in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009Thunderstorm WindKarlin$3,500Trees downed on Wilson Road near Davis Road.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pavlovic Corner1.7 miles15
Interlochen4.7 miles15
Monroe Center5.2 miles12
Wexford Corner6.5 miles12
Hilltop7.1 miles12
Grawn7.5 miles12
Hannah7.8 miles12
Chums Corners9.3 miles12

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 KarlinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116245226The 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 629463. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.