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Manitou Beach, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Rollin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49253. The Survey maps it on the Addison quadrangle.

Manitou Beach within Lenawee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

15 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Manitou Beach between 2018 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000817 - 2018
16 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000809 - 2018
14 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000836 - 2019
5 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000553 - 2019
8 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 197 - 2018
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000463 - 2019
6 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000457 - 2019
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000475 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee 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 Manitou Beach: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cliff Brownell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cole Brothers Lanawee County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stevick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manitou Beach in 1 storm report in 2003: 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
August 2003Thunderstorm WindManitou Beach-Local law enforcement reported numerous trees down.

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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
Devil's Lake Estates0.9 miles9
Round Lake Estates1.1 miles9
Geneva1.7 miles9
Addison Junction1.9 miles9
Addison2.4 miles9
Devils Lake2.8 miles18
Rollin4.1 miles9
Rome Center6.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 631388. 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.

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.