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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Secord Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Houghton Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
36 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 July 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GLADWIN 16 |
| 23 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 14 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 June 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SECORD TOWNSHIP FIRE\RESCUE 0000051 - 2018 |
| 25 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 June 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 June 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SECORD TOWNSHIP FIRE\RESCUE 0000067 - 2019 |
| 8 May 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GLADWIN 08 |
| 7 May 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.4 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GLADWIN 04 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Clay Prospect | Clay | Prospect |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden Shoe Village | 2.5 miles | 10 | |
| White Star | 2.6 miles | 10 | |
| McClure | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Winegars | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Sugar Rapids | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Wagarville | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Highwood | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Hockaday | 6.5 miles | 9 |
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 Q122545472 | 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 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.




