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McLeods Corner, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pentland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49868. The Survey maps it on the Soo Junction quadrangle.

McLeods Corner within Luce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of McLeods Corner between 1992 and 2014, burning about 21 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 use2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 June 2007Recreation and ceremony20 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 May 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 October 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLUCE 0003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Luce 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 McLeods Corner: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
D.N.Mc Leod Limestone ExposureStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
D.N.Mc Leod Lumber Co. Ls QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Union Carbide's Hendricks Ls QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Luce 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
Lencel4.8 miles10
McPhees Landing5.6 miles10
Soo Junction5.9 miles10
Roberts Corner6.6 miles10
Betty B Landing8.1 miles10
Newberry8.5 miles10
Dollarville10.0 miles10
Fourmile Corner11.2 miles10

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 Q122553441The 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 631983. 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.