Mabel, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Whitewater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49690. The Survey maps it on the Torch River quadrangle.

Mabel within Grand Traverse County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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 Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Elk Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Torch River quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Mabel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 285 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Agency	TURTLE CREEK 2
27 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE 05 - ROOTS LAKE
10 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	6.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 August 2001	Fireworks	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse 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
Williamsburg	2.5 miles	12
Bates	4.6 miles	12
Angel	5.2 miles	12
Yuba	6.5 miles	12
Acme	7.7 miles	12
Jacks Landing	8.6 miles	14
Devils Elbow	8.9 miles	14
Fivemile Corner	9.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2104382. 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.