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Kinross, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Kinross Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49752. The Survey maps it on the Kinross quadrangle. It stands 755 feet above sea level.

Kinross within Chippewa County

On record in Kinross

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Kinross between 1992 and 2020, burning about 228 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
27 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 1995Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2019Arson/incendiarism3.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIR
19 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIR
2 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOO TOWNSHIP FD 0024-19 - 2019
16 June 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDUKE LAKE -1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kinross: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Petkus PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
N. Pickford Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Thornton Brick Yd Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chippewa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinross in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 2 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
August 2016Thunderstorm WindKinross$9,000The metal roof of an outbuilding was partially removed. A few trees were also downed.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindKinross-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chippewa 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
Kincheloe2.7 miles15
Rudyard5.4 miles11
Dafter7.5 miles15
Donaldson8.5 miles16
Brimley9.5 miles14
Dryburg9.7 miles12
Dorgans Crossing9.9 miles14
Pickford11.4 miles13

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 Q136352794The 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 629744. 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.