Morres Junction, Michigan

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

Morres Junction 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Morres Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 184 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
24 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ARENAC 05
23 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ARENAC 04
3 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GIBSON TOWNSHIP FD 2020-20 - 2020
11 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	STERLING AREA FD 1419044 - 2019

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
Sterling	4.1 miles	10
Standish	7.5 miles	10
Alger	8.0 miles	9
Melita	8.4 miles	10
Worth	9.1 miles	10
Knights Mill	10.7 miles	11
Pine River	11.1 miles	10
Saganing	11.4 miles	10

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 Q122542148

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 1617730. 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.