Kingsley Beach, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Tuscarora Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49749. The Survey maps it on the Burt Lake quadrangle.

Kingsley Beach within Cheboygan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Wolverine quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Petoskey quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Burt Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Kingsley Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 112 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
Debris and open burning	34
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
6 August 2016	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TUSCARORA TOWNSHIP VFD 0000115 - 2019
1 August 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FOREST-WAVERLY FD 2018020 - 2018
7 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TUSCARORA TOWNSHIP VFD 0000064 - 2018
7 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALANSON-LITTLEFIELD FD 1835 - 2018
6 July 2005	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cheboygan 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 Kingsley Beach: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hatch Farm Shale Prospect	Clay	Prospect
	White Farm Shale Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Cheboygan 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
Pittsburg Landing	0.7 miles	12
Indian River	2.5 miles	12
Springwell Heights	3.0 miles	12
Chippewa Beach	3.0 miles	12
Wauban Beach	3.7 miles	12
Wildwood	3.8 miles	12
Burt Lake	4.1 miles	12
Grand View Beach	5.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2100368. 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.