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Pine Stump Junction, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in McMillan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49868. It stands on Whisky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Muskallonge Lake SE quadrangle. It stands 755 feet above sea level.

Pine Stump Junction within Luce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Pine Stump Junction between 2003 and 2020, burning about 19,866 acres in total. 9 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
Natural9

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
12 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2007Natural19,800 acresSeney National Wildlife RefugeSLEEPER LAKE
2 August 2007Natural37 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2020Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONARCH
7 July 2003Natural2.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2005Natural1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2006Natural2.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 2012Natural5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOOPERATIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Luce 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
Deer Park7.4 miles11
Eightmile Corner10.4 miles10
Fourmile Corner11.2 miles10
Dollarville15.3 miles10
Natalie15.4 miles10
Newberry15.4 miles10
McPhees Landing16.3 miles10
McMillan16.7 miles10

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 Pine Stump JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195365The 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 635000. 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.