Missaukee Junction, Michigan

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

Missaukee Junction 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.

1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Cadillac North quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Cadillac quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Cadillac North quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Missaukee Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 168 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	2
Smoking	1

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 2002	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2018	Arson/incendiarism	79 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WEXFORD 04 - BOND MILL POND
23 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HARING TOWNSHIP FD 72 - 2020
20 August 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	39 ROAD FIRE
11 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	I CAN'T FIND IT
7 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CADILLAC DPS 0001278 - 2018
4 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHERRY GROVE TOWNSHIP FD 0000137 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Haring	0.7 miles	12
Cadillac	4.0 miles	12
Gilbert	4.6 miles	12
Manton	7.1 miles	12
Meauwataka	7.3 miles	12
Millersville	8.0 miles	12
Benson	8.2 miles	12
Hobart	8.9 miles	12

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 Q122552780

The 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 1620862. 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.