Moran, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Brevort Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49760. The Survey maps it on the Moran quadrangle. It stands 705 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1931 USGS Moran NE quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Moran NE quadrangle1:31680
- 1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Moran quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
22 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Moran between 1994 and 2020, burning about 41 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | CAMPFIRE |
| 7 August 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | BREVOORT DAM |
| 25 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | APPLE |
| 11 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | MEDIAN |
| 26 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | PROCESSOR FIRE |
| 18 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | RV |
| 14 July 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | CYCLIST SMELLS SMOKE |
| 1 July 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | TRAIL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moran in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Moran | $18,000 | A large culvert washed out, rendering East Lake Road impassable just north of Moran. A pick-up truck fell into the washed-out section, which the driver did not see just after rounding a corner. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Moran | - | Damage to patrol car. |
| October 2016 | Hail | Moran | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moran | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allenville | 0.8 miles | 12 | |
| Charles | 7.5 miles | 11 | |
| Evergreen Shores | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Gros Cap | 8.5 miles | 10 | |
| Kenneth | 9.0 miles | 11 | |
| Saint Ignace | 10.2 miles | 10 | |
| Brevort | 11.3 miles | 12 | |
| Ozark | 12.4 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 Q136352795 | 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 1620894. 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.





