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Rainy Beach, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in North Allis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49765. It stands on Cold Creek. The Survey maps it on the Black Lake Bluffs quadrangle.

Rainy Beach within Presque Isle 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.

Fires near this place

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Rainy Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
4 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2013Power generation/transmission/distribution1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 04
19 July 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 04 - LOADED COOLER
27 June 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2012Debris and open burning1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 09
5 May 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 May 2020Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 03 - RAIN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Presque Isle 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 Rainy Beach: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Presque Isle County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Presque Isle 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
Coddes Beach0.6 miles11
Canfield Beach0.8 miles11
Black Lake Bluffs1.9 miles11
Black Lake2.2 miles11
Onaway6.4 miles11
Huron Beach7.1 miles11
Ocqueoc7.3 miles11
Bell Landing7.9 miles11

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 Q122565726The 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 635606. 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.