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Parkdale, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Manistee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49660. The Survey maps it on the Parkdale quadrangle.

Parkdale within Manistee County

On record in Parkdale

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

6 surveys from 9 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

51 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Parkdale between 1998 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
16 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMADISON SCHOOL
25 August 2009Fireworksunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCONDO
21 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestHARRIS ROAD
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestEAST LAKE ROAD
5 July 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSTOP SIGN
5 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan AgencyLRBHOUSING
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestCARLSTROM
3 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSTATION POWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manistee 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 Parkdale: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Bromine. 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
Morton Salt Company- ManisteeBromineProducer1892
Morton-ManisteeMagnesite, BromineProducer1940
Martin Marietta-ManisteeMagnesiteProducer1944, 1969
Martin-Marietta Chem.--Manistee, MiMagnesiteProducer
Martin-Marietta Chemicals (Manistee)MagnesiteProducerSedimentary
Morton Chem Co--Manistee, Mich.MagnesiteProducer

Every working recorded in Manistee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parkdale in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
September 2021HailParkdale-Report from mping.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindParkdale-Trees and power lines down.

Every storm recorded in Manistee 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
East Lake1.6 miles10
Manistee2.0 miles10
Bar Lake2.1 miles9
Oak Hill3.0 miles10
Filer City3.7 miles10
Newland3.9 miles9
Stronach4.0 miles10
Douglas5.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 634378. 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.