Pointe aux Peaux, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Frenchtown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48166. The Survey maps it on the Stony Point quadrangle.

Pointe aux Peaux within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1912 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500
1914 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Stony Point quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1942 USGS Stony Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1952 USGS Stony Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Stony Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Pointe aux Peaux between 2011 and 2020, burning about 303 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
11 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 191935 - 2019
16 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2020351 -
27 April 2019	Debris and open burning	300 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019258 -
26 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ESTRAL BEACH VFD 0201911 - 2019
29 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MONROE 01
26 November 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019744 -

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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
Stony Point	0.6 miles	18
Estral Beach	2.9 miles	13
Woodland Beach	3.2 miles	18
Oldport	3.8 miles	18
Detroit Beach	4.0 miles	18
Stony Creek	4.4 miles	18
Newport	4.9 miles	16
Golfcrest	6.2 miles	18

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 Q122556716

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 1617005. 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.