Peshawbestown, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Suttons Bay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49682. It stands on Belangers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Omena quadrangle. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Peshawbestown within Leelanau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Northport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Omena quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Charlevoix quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Peshawbestown between 1999 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Fireworks	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians	LODGE
15 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians	SUTTONS BY
14 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2018205 - 2018
4 July 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Agency	MCKEESE FIREWORKS
29 July 2011	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Agency	HOUSING
21 July 2013	Smoking	1.5 acres	Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians	STRONG HART
23 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians	NINATGO
15 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2020142 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leelanau 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
Omena	2.3 miles	12
Ahgosatown	4.0 miles	12
Suttons Bay	4.2 miles	13
Fountain Point	6.7 miles	13
Lake Leelanau	6.7 miles	13
Keswick	7.1 miles	13
Northport	7.4 miles	12
Leland	8.4 miles	10

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.

Wikipedia article on Peshawbestown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7171386	The 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 634689. 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.