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Saint Ignace, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in St. Ignace City. It lies in ZIP code area 49781. The Survey maps it on the Saint Ignace quadrangle. 2,306 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 587 feet above sea level.

Saint Ignace within Mackinac County

On record in Saint Ignace

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Ignace fell from 2,452 to 2,306 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,452
20202,306-146 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Saint Ignace between 2000 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST IGNACE VFD 2019077 - 2019
2 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestAIRPORT
5 June 2014Debris and open burning2.5 acresHiawatha National ForestLANTS
13 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreHiawatha National ForestGROS CAP FIRE
25 May 2003Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresHiawatha National ForestCHEESEMAN MARSH
24 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestINTERSTATE
20 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHiawatha National ForestCHEESEMAN
18 April 2015Fireworks55 acresHiawatha National ForestPRAIRIE LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mackinac County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Saint Ignace: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Pryor and Reavie Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Whitehead Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mackinac 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
Evergreen Shores2.3 miles11
British Landing4.4 miles11
Gros Cap5.3 miles10
Mackinac Island5.9 miles10
Fort Mackinac5.9 miles10
Fort Holmes5.9 miles10
Allenville9.4 miles12
Charles10.2 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.

Wikipedia article on Saint IgnaceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1946253The 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 1621477. 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.