Leelanau Schools, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Glen Arbor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49636. It stands on Crystal River. The Survey maps it on the Glen Arbor quadrangle.

Leelanau Schools within Leelanau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Maple City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Glen Arbor quadrangle1:25000
1983 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000
1997 USGS Glen Arbor quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Leelanau Schools between 1992 and 2017, burning about 6 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	6
Natural	3
Fireworks	2
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2008	Fireworks	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	THORESON BEACH
5 July 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	DAYFOREST
30 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	CLAYBANKS
1 July 1993	Fireworks	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	FIREWORKS
7 June 2017	Natural	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	BASCH WIRE
24 June 2003	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	SUNSET
16 June 2013	Natural	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	MILLER HILL
6 May 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	DUNE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leelanau 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
Glen Arbor	1.4 miles	14
Port Oneida	2.6 miles	14
Glen Haven	3.1 miles	8
Burdickville	4.7 miles	15
Maple City	7.4 miles	14
Empire	8.6 miles	10
Bodus	10.0 miles	14
Cedar	10.4 miles	14

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 Q122542211

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 1617990. 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.