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Ladoga, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Limestone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49891. The Survey maps it on the Ladoga quadrangle.

Ladoga within Alger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Ladoga between 1994 and 2010, burning about 55 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning4

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
10 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreHiawatha National ForestSTRAITS LAKE
4 May 1994Debris and open burning35 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2003Debris and open burning19 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

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
Kiva2.5 miles11
Dorsey4.3 miles11
Sundell4.7 miles11
Rumely4.7 miles11
Traunik4.7 miles11
Diffin5.1 miles12
Mantila Camp5.2 miles12
Eben Junction6.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1620470. 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.