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Ocqueoc, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ocqueoc Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49759. The Survey maps it on the Ocqueoc quadrangle.

Ocqueoc within Presque Isle County

On record in Ocqueoc

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Ocqueoc between 1992 and 2019, burning about 211 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
Natural1

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
7 August 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2016Natural8.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution12 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 03 - GLASS MAKER
26 June 2012Debris and open burning1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 09
7 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 02 - TROUT FIRE
5 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 01 - 82ND AIR BORN FIRE
24 May 1996Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 1992Debris and open burning7.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Presque Isle County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ocqueoc: 3 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Indian Creek Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East Branch Limestone ExposureLimestone, GeneralProspect
Ocqueoc Limestone ExposureLimestone, GeneralProspect

Every working recorded in Presque Isle County

Storms near this place

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ocqueoc in 8 storm reports between 2005 and 2015: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2015Thunderstorm WindOcqueoc$12,000A number of trees and power lines were downed in and west of Rogers City. A boater at harbor in Rogers City measured a 66 mph gust.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOcqueoc$4,000Several large trees downed.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOcqueoc$4,000Trees downed.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindOcqueoc$2,000Trees downed.
September 2012HailOcqueoc-Golfball-sized hail fell along M-68 between Rogers City and Millersburg.
July 2006HailOcqueoc-Nickel sized hail at Huron Beach.
July 2005HailOcqueoc-A small cluster of severe thunderstorms developed early in the afternoon in northeast Lower Michigan. Quarter sized hail fell at Huron Beach.
June 2006HailOcqueoc-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Presque Isle 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
Millersburg5.3 miles11
Bell Landing5.7 miles11
Huron Beach5.8 miles11
Hammond6.7 miles11
Coddes Beach7.2 miles11
Rainy Beach7.3 miles11
Big Cut7.4 miles8
Canfield Beach7.9 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 Q122550405The 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 633933. 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.