BlockLarson Beach, Michigan
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Alcona Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48762. The Survey maps it on the Hubbard Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Hubbard Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Hubbard Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
31 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Larson Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 2 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 burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 August 2001 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALCONA 19 - CHIPMUNK |
| 18 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALCONA TOWNSHIP FD 0000013 - 2020 |
| 18 July 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALCONA 07 - STRIKE |
| 16 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALCONA 13 - LEBONTE FIRE |
| 12 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALCONA TOWNSHIP FD 0000011 - 2019 |
| 3 June 1996 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hubbard Lake | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Backus Beach | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Spruce | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Lost Lake Woods | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Barton City | 9.1 miles | 11 | |
| Lincoln | 10.0 miles | 11 | |
| Black River | 11.7 miles | 8 | |
| Killmaster | 12.3 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 Q122550922 | 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 630172. 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.