Lencel, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in McMillan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49868. The Survey maps it on the Roberts Corner quadrangle.

Lencel within Luce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Roberts Corner quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Manistique Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Lencel between 1992 and 2019, burning about 11 acres in total. None 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 burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
3 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 July 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CORRAL FIRE
21 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LUCE 0002
17 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MAKI FIRE
7 June 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 June 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 May 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 May 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LUCE 0001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Luce 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
McPhees Landing	1.6 miles	10
Newberry	4.3 miles	10
Roberts Corner	4.5 miles	10
McLeods Corner	4.8 miles	10
Dollarville	6.0 miles	10
Fourmile Corner	6.4 miles	10
Natalie	7.9 miles	10
Betty B Landing	8.8 miles	10

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 Q122539555

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 1617680. 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.