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Pearll City, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bagley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49735. The Survey maps it on the Otsego Lake quadrangle.

Pearll City within Otsego County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Pearll City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 136 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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 burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use26
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Recreation and ceremony15
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Fireworks3
Other causes1
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
3 September 2012Fireworksunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTSEGO 29 - E DIXON LK
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2004Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTSEGO 21 - BIRTHDAY 11
14 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTSEGO 20 - BIRTHDAY 10
14 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTSEGO 13 - BIRTHDAY 3
14 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTSEGO 11 ¿ BIRTHDAY 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pearll City: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Comstock's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hoogerhyde PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mason Excavating Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mccay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Otsego County Pit-GlancySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Poor Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Otsego 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
Oak Grove0.7 miles16
Eyedylwild Beach1.8 miles16
Arbutus Beach2.5 miles16
Gaylord3.2 miles14
Otsego Lake4.5 miles16
Waters7.1 miles16
Sparr7.2 miles12
Whites Landing7.8 miles15

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 Q122544190The 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 634531. 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.