Melita, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Clayton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48659. The Survey maps it on the Sterling quadrangle.

Melita within Arenac 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.

1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Houghton Lake quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Melita between 1992 and 2019, burning about 804 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	28
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	12
Recreation and ceremony	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	6

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
7 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	4.3 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	18 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ARENAC 33
15 July 2002	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arenac 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
Knights Mill	3.0 miles	11
Maple Ridge	4.7 miles	10
Sterling	5.5 miles	10
Alger	6.1 miles	9
Morres Junction	8.4 miles	10
Omer	9.3 miles	10
Standish	9.3 miles	10
Twining	10.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617715. 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.