Rasmus, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Grayling Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49738. It lies near Wilson Hill. The Survey maps it on the Lake Margrethe quadrangle.

Rasmus within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1949 USGS Fletcher quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Lake Margrethe quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Grayling quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Rasmus between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,085 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
20 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RANGE 16 KALKASKA 06
19 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RANGE #8, CRAWFORD 20
12 September 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BEAVER CREEK FD 19233 - 2019
12 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RANGE #8 CRAWFORD 19
12 September 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.6 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CRAWFORD 13 RANGE #8
7 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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
Lake Margrethe	0.8 miles	14
Collens Landing	1.1 miles	14
Danish Landing	1.9 miles	14
McIntyre Landing	3.0 miles	14
Grayling	3.9 miles	14
Skyline Village	5.6 miles	13
Louis Cabin Landing	7.7 miles	14
Pere Cheney	8.1 miles	13

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 Q122540789

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 1617811. 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.