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Parkington, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mueller Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49840. The Survey maps it on the Blaney Park quadrangle.

Parkington within Schoolcraft 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.

Fires near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Parkington between 1995 and 2016, burning about 64 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning2
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 August 2007Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2007Natural1.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREID ROAD
11 May 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTOWNSHIP
18 April 2006Railroad operations and maintenance4.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2016Railroad operations and maintenance7.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2015Debris and open burning3.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDIXNER ROAD
31 March 1995Debris and open burning46 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoolcraft 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 Parkington: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Dolomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Dolomite QuarryDolomiteProducer1930
Inland Lime & StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
West Hical QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer1930
Blaney Park Pit No 30Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mackinac County Pits-Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Schoolcraft 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
Blaney Junction2.1 miles11
Gulliver3.6 miles7
Inland4.5 miles11
Blaney Park7.3 miles11
Manistique16.3 miles6
Germfask16.5 miles11
Hiawatha18.2 miles11
Ossawinamakee Beach18.4 miles8

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 Q122540037The 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 1617771. 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.