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Ogemaw Springs, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Ogemaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48661. The Survey maps it on the Ogemaw Springs quadrangle.

Ogemaw Springs within Ogemaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Ogemaw Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 722 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning17
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony11
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
5 August 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2002Natural13 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2001Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 1992Recreation and ceremony18 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2002Smoking1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOGEMAW 01 - GAMBLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ogemaw 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 Ogemaw Springs: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bunting Sand & Gravel Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bunting Sand & Gravel Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ewing PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Glancy Ogemaw County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ogemaw County No 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
West Branch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ogemaw 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
West Branch3.4 miles11
Campbells Corners7.8 miles11
Edwards8.9 miles9
Greenwood11.4 miles9
Selkirk12.0 miles10
Rose City12.4 miles11
Damon12.5 miles9
Fayettes Corner12.6 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 Q122572277The 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 633957. 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.