Point Nipigon, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Beaugrand Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49721. The Survey maps it on the Point Nipigon quadrangle.

Point Nipigon within Cheboygan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Mullett Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Point Nipigon quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Point Nipigon between 2001 and 2018, burning about 27 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
13 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 July 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	INVERNESS FD 0000017 - 2018
18 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHEBOYGAN 03
16 April 2005	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 April 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cheboygan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Point Nipigon: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Cheboygan 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
Grand View	1.8 miles	11
Pries Landing	2.2 miles	11
Freedom	4.4 miles	11
Mackinaw Heights (historical)	5.0 miles	11
Cheboygan	6.5 miles	12
Weadock	6.9 miles	11
Edgewater Beach	9.4 miles	10
Riggsville	9.8 miles	11

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 Q122546941

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 635191. 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.