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Secord, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Secord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48624. It stands on Tea Creek. The Survey maps it on the Secord Lake quadrangle.

Secord within Gladwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Secord between 1994 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
24 July 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGLADWIN 16
23 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use14 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 June 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSECORD TOWNSHIP FIRE\RESCUE 0000051 - 2018
25 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSECORD TOWNSHIP FIRE\RESCUE 0000067 - 2019
8 May 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGLADWIN 08
7 May 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGLADWIN 04

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gladwin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Secord: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Gladwin 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
Wooden Shoe Village2.5 miles10
White Star2.6 miles10
McClure4.5 miles9
Winegars5.0 miles10
Sugar Rapids5.9 miles9
Wagarville6.4 miles9
Highwood6.5 miles10
Hockaday6.5 miles9

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 Q122545472The 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 1617841. 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.