BlockLangport, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lafayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48637. The Survey maps it on the Rathbone quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1934 USGS Merrill quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS Merrill quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Rathbone quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Alma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Langport between 2018 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | JONESFIELD-LAKEFIELD FD 139 - 2020 |
| 14 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | JONESFIELD-LAKEFIELD FD 128 - 2019 |
| 10 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | JONESFIELD-LAKEFIELD FD 143 - 2020 |
| 18 June 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | JONESFIELD-LAKEFIELD FD 130 - 2020 |
| 17 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | JONESFIELD-LAKEFIELD FD 91 - 2019 |
| 7 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | JONESFIELD-LAKEFIELD FD 75 - 2020 |
| 7 April 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | JONESFIELD-LAKEFIELD FD 68 - 2019 |
| 6 April 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | JONESFIELD-LAKEFIELD FD 65 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rathbone | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Wheeler | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Breckenridge | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Edgewood | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Sickles | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| North Wheeler | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Beebe | 8.6 miles | 14 | |
| North Star | 11.4 miles | 13 |
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 Q122544174 | 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 1617671. 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.