Royal Oak Beach, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mullett Township. It stands on Mullett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Indian River quadrangle.

Royal Oak Beach within Cheboygan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Wolverine quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Petoskey quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Indian River quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Royal Oak Beach between 1992 and 2019, burning about 99 acres in total. 2 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 burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
6 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2016	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 July 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 2017	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHEBOYGAN 09 POLISH LINE
4 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 July 2004	Natural	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cheboygan 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
Giauque Beach	1.0 miles	12
Topinabee	1.1 miles	12
Veery Point	1.6 miles	11
Cold Springs	2.3 miles	12
Grand View Beach	2.4 miles	12
Long Point	2.6 miles	11
Miami Beach	3.0 miles	12
Birchwood	3.9 miles	11

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 Q122552918

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 636353. 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.