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Leetsville, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Rapid River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49646. The Survey maps it on the Leetsville quadrangle.

Leetsville within Kalkaska County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Leetsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2001Debris and open burning2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALKASKA 09 - VALLEY
25 August 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALKASKA 08
18 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALKASKA 07

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalkaska County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Leetsville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Schworm Kalaska County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kalkaska 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
Kalkaska4.4 miles15
Westwood4.6 miles14
Darragh5.1 miles14
Rapid City7.8 miles12
Cotton8.1 miles14
Barker Creek9.0 miles12
Crofton9.6 miles15
Sigma9.8 miles14

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 Q122564341The 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 630274. 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.