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Nellsville, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48629. The Survey maps it on the Houghton Lake quadrangle.

Nellsville within Roscommon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Nellsville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 67 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
18 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE TOWNSHIP VFD 0292019 - 2019
20 July 2009Arson/incendiarism21 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 16
2 July 2005Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMISSAUKEE 05
9 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 01
7 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 07
6 May 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roscommon County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Nellsville: 4 producers, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
N.Houghton Lake Clay SampleFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Jess Stanley Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Roscommon County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Roscommon County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Roscommon County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Roscommon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nellsville in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 hail. 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
July 2017HailNellsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roscommon 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
Houghton Lake Heights2.1 miles13
Houghton Lake3.0 miles13
Michelson3.4 miles12
Houghton Point3.8 miles13
Loxley4.6 miles13
Meads Landing4.9 miles12
Prudenville8.9 miles10
Sharps Corners9.0 miles11

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 Q122547987The 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 633273. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.