Nicholson, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Conway Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48872. The Survey maps it on the Corunna SE quadrangle.

Nicholson within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1926 USGS Corunna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1929 USGS Corunna quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Corunna quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Corunna SE quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Lansing quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Nicholson between 2014 and 2020, burning about 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
12 May 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LIVINGSTON 0001
2 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FOWLERVILLE FD 0000206 - 2019
8 March 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FOWLERVILLE FD 137 - 2020
28 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BURNS TOWNSHIP FD 0000013 - 2019
17 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FOWLERVILLE FD 0000179 - 2018
10 December 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FOWLERVILLE FD 880 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston 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
Cohoctah Center	7.4 miles	14
Fowlerville	8.5 miles	11
Cohoctah	9.4 miles	14
Fleming	10.9 miles	11
Oak Grove	11.5 miles	12
Deer Creek	11.5 miles	14
Deerfield Center	14.2 miles	12
Parkers Corners	14.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617743. 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.