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Santiago, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Turner Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48765. It stands on Bum Drain. The Survey maps it on the Au Gres quadrangle.

Santiago within Arenac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Santiago between 1994 and 2020, burning about 412 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
20 September 2020Recreation and ceremony9.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 05
8 July 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 02
26 May 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 32
17 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTWINING-TURNER-MASON FD 0000014 - 2019
15 May 1995Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 1994Smoking65 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 1994Debris and open burning253 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arenac County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Santiago: 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Clay, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Cook Brick Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
Duck Lake Limestone QuarryGranitePast Producer
Tawas QuarryGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1950
Arenac Co Pit # 1 Re GlancyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
C & D QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Van Dusen Stone CoStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Arenac County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santiago in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSantiago$6,000Six large trees were downed near US-23 and Twining Road.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSantiago$2,000Trees were downed in the Delano area.

Every storm recorded in Arenac 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
Delano4.0 miles11
Au Gres4.4 miles11
Turner5.1 miles10
Twining5.7 miles10
Birchwood Shores6.2 miles11
Glenwood Beach6.3 miles11
Hammell Beach6.5 miles11
Wagner Beach7.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617837. 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.

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.