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Lincoln Junction, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Oscoda Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48750. It lies near Loud Island. The Survey maps it on the Oscoda quadrangle.

Lincoln Junction within Iosco County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIOSCO #2 PERSEPHONE
7 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIOSCO 08 - CIGARETTE FIRE
5 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIOSCO 09 - ALEXANDER FIRE
16 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestBIKE
15 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestTRANSFORMER
7 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMELODY FIRE
5 July 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iosco County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lincoln Junction: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iosco 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
Oscoda5.1 miles13
Au Sable5.7 miles13
Foote Site Village6.6 miles13
Wilber10.1 miles13
Sid Town13.7 miles14
East Tawas16.4 miles13
Tawas City17.6 miles14
Clark Bayshore19.7 miles11

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 Q122551714The 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 1617683. 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.