Onota, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Onota Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49822. The Survey maps it on the Rock River quadrangle.

Onota within Alger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1958 USGS Au Train quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Munising quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Rock River quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Onota between 2001 and 2019, burning about 5 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
27 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WHITE BUCKET
28 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DEERTON
28 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ONOTA TOWNSHIP VFD 0190803 - 2019
11 August 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	ROCK RIVER
7 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DEERTON VALMET
9 June 2001	Natural	3.7 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 April 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alger 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
Deerton	2.5 miles	11
Rock River	4.4 miles	11
Sand River	6.5 miles	11
Eben Junction	8.1 miles	11
Rumely	8.7 miles	11
Au Train	8.9 miles	11
Chatham	9.2 miles	11
Sundell	9.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1621112. 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.