Oberlin, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49635. The Survey maps it on the Frankfort quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Oberlin within Benzie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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 Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Frankfort quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Frankfort NW quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Frankfort quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Crystal Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Oberlin (historical) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 11 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	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
29 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	JACKPINE
24 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	LOON LAKE
1 June 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	ILLINOIS ROAD
30 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FRANKFORT-ELBERTA VFD 0000031 - 2018
21 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	PLATTE HOLDER
18 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENZIE 02
18 April 2004	Power generation/transmission/distribution	7.6 acres	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	BANCROFT
26 March 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	LONG LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benzie County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oberlin (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Benzie County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Benzie 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
Chimney Corners Resort	0.7 miles	11
Crystallia	2.0 miles	11
Pilgrim	2.4 miles	11
Frankfort	4.2 miles	11
Elberta	5.1 miles	10
Edgewater	6.2 miles	10
Beulah	8.0 miles	10
Benzonia	8.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1951829. 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.