Killmaster, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Gustin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48740. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln quadrangle.

Killmaster within Alcona 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.

1954 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Harrisville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1983 USGS Hubbard Lake quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Killmaster between 1992 and 2019, burning about 129 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Recreation and ceremony	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1
Fireworks	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
12 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALCONA 26 - HAYBALE FIRE
8 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2016	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alcona 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
Gustin	2.0 miles	11
Mikado	3.2 miles	11
Lincoln	4.2 miles	11
Alvin	7.4 miles	11
Springport	7.7 miles	11
Greenbush	7.8 miles	11
Harrisville	8.5 miles	11
Barton City	8.9 miles	11

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 Q122558473

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 629664. 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.