Little Manistee, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Eden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49644. The Survey maps it on the Peacock quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1933 USGS Peacock SW quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Wellston SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Cadillac quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Peacock quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
118 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Little Manistee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 215 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning | 50 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | OLD BOTTLE |
| 19 September 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | PICKET FENCE |
| 15 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | CHURCH |
| 10 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | UTTER RD |
| 1 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LAKE 04 |
| 30 August 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | BASS LAKE |
| 25 August 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | CAN'T BELIEVE IT |
| 22 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | LUKE'S CORNER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Manistee in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2026: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Manistee | $10,000 | A few trees were blown down in portions of Lake county. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Little Manistee | - | Hail on 1.5 inches in diameter was reported. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Little Manistee | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Q122559845 | 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 1620565. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.







