BlockNahma Junction, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Nahma Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49878. The Survey maps it on the Saint Jacques quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1932 USGS Garden NW and SW quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Garden quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Manistique quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS St. Jacques quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
14 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Nahma Junction between 1995 and 2018, burning about 51 acres in total. 1 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.1 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | CENTENNIAL |
| 8 June 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | HIGHWAY 13 |
| 20 June 2016 | Other causes | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | MAC |
| 7 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GARDEN TOWNSHIP VFD 0201811 - 2018 |
| 7 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | LL FIRE |
| 24 May 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | 503 |
| 18 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | RIVER FIRE |
| 18 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NAHMA TOWNSHIP VFD 0000017 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Jacques | 1.8 miles | 10 | |
| Nahma | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Ogontz | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Isabella | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Ensign | 8.5 miles | 9 | |
| Garden Corners | 9.1 miles | 10 | |
| Alton | 9.4 miles | 10 | |
| Garden | 11.9 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 Q122597168 | 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 1620978. 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.