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Old Mission, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Peninsula Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49686. The Survey maps it on the Elk Rapids quadrangle. It stands 587 feet above sea level.

Old Mission within Grand Traverse County

On record in Old Mission

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Old Mission between 2018 and 2019, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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/undetermined4

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPENINSULA TOWNSHIP FD 0000475 - 2018
23 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPENINSULA TOWNSHIP FD 0000258 - 2019
9 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPENINSULA TOWNSHIP FD 0000152 - 2018
20 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000033 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Mission in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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
April 2002LightningOld Mission$125,000Home destroyed by fire caused by lightning strike.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindOld Mission$3,000Power lines down on road. Time of damage estimated from radar.
June 2011HailOld Mission-no account filed
June 2011HailOld Mission-no account filed
July 2006HailOld Mission-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand Traverse 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
Mapleton4.8 miles12
Yuba9.7 miles12
Angel9.7 miles12
Acme13.2 miles12
Bates13.3 miles12
Williamsburg13.7 miles12
Mabel14.8 miles12
Fivemile Corner15.0 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on Old MissionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7084542The 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 634007. 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.

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.