BlockBefore

Rainbow Bend, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Summerfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48625. It stands on Cranberry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moddersville quadrangle.

Rainbow Bend within Clare County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Rainbow Bend between 1992 and 2020, burning about 237 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 were 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLARE 21
30 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKirtlands Warbler National Wildlife RefugeCLARE #9
30 September 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLARE 23
1 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKirtlands Warbler National Wildlife RefugeCLARE #8
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARRISON COMMUNITY FD 220 - 2019
26 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clare 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
Leota1.9 miles12
Buck Trails3.9 miles11
Piney Woods7.1 miles11
Cooperton7.5 miles11
Long Lake Heights8.1 miles11
Airport Forest8.1 miles11
Ash Acres8.5 miles11
Temple8.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617808. 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.