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Rumely, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rock River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49826. The Survey maps it on the Ladoga quadrangle. It stands 1,056 feet above sea level.

Rumely within Alger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Rumely between 2005 and 2018, burning about 2 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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/undetermined2
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

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
27 September 2009Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE BUCKET
30 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreHiawatha National ForestSTRAITS LAKE
14 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCK RIVER TOWNSHIP FD 0000014 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alger 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
Sundell2.5 miles11
Dorsey2.8 miles11
Eben Junction3.4 miles11
Ladoga4.7 miles11
Chatham5.5 miles11
Traunik6.9 miles11
Kiva7.1 miles11
Slapneck7.8 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 Q122590756The 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 1621458. 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.