BlockRhodes, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bentley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48652. The Survey maps it on the Bentley quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Bentley quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Midland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Rhodes between 1993 and 2020, burning about 247 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.6 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 June 2019 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BILLINGS TOWNSHIP FD 0000167 - 2019 |
| 9 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GLADWIN 03 |
| 26 May 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.9 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BILLINGS TOWNSHIP FD 0000125 - 2018 |
| 20 May 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.8 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GLADWIN 13 |
| 13 May 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GIBSON TOWNSHIP FD 2020-15 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rhodes in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2012: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estey | 2.7 miles | 10 | |
| Highwood | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Lockwood Beach | 9.4 miles | 10 | |
| Billings | 9.8 miles | 10 | |
| Winegars | 10.5 miles | 10 | |
| Wooden Shoe Village | 10.9 miles | 10 | |
| White Star | 11.4 miles | 10 | |
| Hard Luck | 11.8 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 635830. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.