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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.

Moran within Mackinac 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

22 since 1994

Regional 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 burning9
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
28 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National ForestCAMPFIRE
7 August 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National ForestBREVOORT DAM
25 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestAPPLE
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestMEDIAN
26 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHiawatha National ForestPROCESSOR FIRE
18 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreHiawatha National ForestRV
14 July 2001Smokingunder an acreHiawatha National ForestCYCLIST SMELLS SMOKE
1 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National ForestTRAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mackinac County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2010Flash FloodMoran$18,000A 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 2002HailMoran-Damage to patrol car.
October 2016HailMoran-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMoran-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mackinac 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
Allenville0.8 miles12
Charles7.5 miles11
Evergreen Shores8.2 miles11
Gros Cap8.5 miles10
Kenneth9.0 miles11
Saint Ignace10.2 miles10
Brevort11.3 miles12
Ozark12.4 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.

Wikidata item Q136352795The 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.