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Maple Valley, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Backus Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48656. The Survey maps it on the Saint Helen quadrangle.

Maple Valley within Roscommon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Maple Valley between 1992 and 2019, burning about 107 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 10
14 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDENTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000150 - 2019
3 July 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roscommon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Maple Valley: 1 producer. 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
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Roscommon 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
Artesia Beach3.5 miles10
Saint Helen5.9 miles10
Au Sable River Park7.0 miles10
Geels8.1 miles10
Prudenville8.5 miles10
Keno12.3 miles10
Sharps Corners13.0 miles11
Roscommon14.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 631499. 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.