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Kentucky, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Munising Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49895. The Survey maps it on the Powell Lake quadrangle.

Kentucky within Alger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

24 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Kentucky between 1997 and 2019, burning about 163 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3

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
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestFOREST GLEN FIRE
7 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National ForestMCKEEVER LAKE
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreHiawatha National ForestPK
9 August 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National ForestGRASSYLAKE
5 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHiawatha National ForestSUMMER HOME
24 August 1997Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresHiawatha National ForestBENT HORN CABIN
20 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National ForestGRASSY TWO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alger 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
Juniper6.8 miles12
Coalwood7.5 miles11
Wetmore7.9 miles12
Stillman8.3 miles11
Doty8.4 miles12
Evelyn8.7 miles12
Munising Junction8.9 miles11
Vail9.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1620415. 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.