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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.

Little Manistee within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

118 since 1992

Regional 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 burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks3
Natural1
Smoking1

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 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestOLD BOTTLE
19 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestPICKET FENCE
15 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCHURCH
10 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestUTTER RD
1 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE 04
30 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestBASS LAKE
25 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCAN'T BELIEVE IT
22 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestLUKE'S CORNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLittle Manistee$10,000A few trees were blown down in portions of Lake county.
April 2025HailLittle Manistee-Hail on 1.5 inches in diameter was reported.
March 2026HailLittle Manistee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Irons3.1 miles15
Peacock3.6 miles14
Sauble6.4 miles14
Wolf Lake7.2 miles14
Luther12.6 miles14
Baldwin13.8 miles16
Skookum14.1 miles14
Idlewild15.5 miles16

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 Q122559845The 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.