Pere Cheney, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Beaver Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48653. The Survey maps it on the Pere Cheney quadrangle.

Pere Cheney within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1949 USGS Grayling quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Pere Cheney quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Grayling quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Pere Cheney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,683 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined	24
Recreation and ceremony	18
Debris and open burning	16
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	1
Natural	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
3 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAYLING FD 2018425 - 2018
12 September 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BEAVER CREEK FD 19233 - 2019
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BEAVER CREEK FD 19197 - 2019
18 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CRAWFORD 10
17 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAYLING FD 2019168 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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
Skyline Village	3.4 miles	13
Deerheart Valley	4.5 miles	14
Louis Cabin Landing	6.0 miles	14
Babbits Resort	6.3 miles	13
Grayling	7.1 miles	14
Five Corners	7.1 miles	13
Rasmus	8.1 miles	14
Lake Margrethe	8.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617781. 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.