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Little Point Sable, Michigan

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Benona Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49455. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Little Point Sable quadrangle.

Little Point Sable within Oceana County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Little Point Sable between 1992 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes4
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
7 August 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2020Other causesunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 13
3 August 2020Other causesunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 12
3 August 2020Other causesunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 11
3 August 2020Other causesunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 10
11 August 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use6.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOCEANA 16

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oceana County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Little Point Sable: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Silver LakeFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Hart Packing Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oceana Co Rd CommSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oceana 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
Stony Lake5.5 miles7
Mears7.0 miles11
Shelby9.4 miles11
Hart10.2 miles12
French Town10.8 miles10
New Era11.4 miles11
Pentwater11.6 miles10
Weare13.0 miles12

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 Q122567585The 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 630736. 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.