Piney Ridge, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Hamlin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49431. It stands on Piney Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Hamlin Lake quadrangle.

Piney Ridge within Mason 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.

1931 USGS Manistee SW quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Manistee quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Hamlin Lake quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Manistee quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Piney Ridge between 2002 and 2019, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	2
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 May 2005	Recreation and ceremony	4.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HAMLIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000080 - 2019
6 April 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	DAVIDSON
23 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PERE MARQUETTE FD 0000112 - 2018
15 November 2002	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	DUNE
9 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 October 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Piney Ridge: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Keiser's Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Ludington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ludington Site	Silica	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Mason 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
Weimer	0.8 miles	10
Hamlin Lake	1.0 miles	10
Lincoln (historical)	1.6 miles	10
Epworth Assembly	2.5 miles	10
North Epworth	2.6 miles	10
Ludington	4.3 miles	10
Buttersville	4.9 miles	10
White Pine Village	6.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 635011. 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.