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Meauwataka, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Colfax Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49601. The Survey maps it on the Boon quadrangle.

Meauwataka within Wexford 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.

Fires near this place

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Meauwataka between 1992 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning10
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Other causes1

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
4 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2004Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestSTODDARD FIRE
20 August 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National Forest39 ROAD FIRE
6 July 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestOUTER LIMITS
18 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestM-115
13 July 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National Forest21 1/2
1 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSELMA TOWNSHIP FD 0000044 - 2018
6 June 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEXFORD 0001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wexford County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meauwataka in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2026: 2 hail, 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 2018Thunderstorm WindMeauwataka$14,000Sporadic pockets of trees and power lines downed in central Wexford County.
March 2026HailMeauwataka-Photo of several quarter sized hailstones near the intersection of north 25 Rd and west 18 1/2 Rd east of Mesick.
July 2023HailMeauwataka-Hail about the size of quarters falling on M 115 northwest of Cadillac.

Every storm recorded in Wexford 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
Millersville5.4 miles12
Boon5.5 miles12
Gilbert6.6 miles12
Missaukee Junction7.3 miles12
Haring7.7 miles12
Manton8.5 miles12
Harrietta8.9 miles12
Sherman9.6 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.

Wikipedia article on MeauwatakaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122553360The 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 632062. 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.

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.