Shady Shores, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48635. The Survey maps it on the South Branch quadrangle.

Shady Shores within Ogemaw 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.

1954 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS South Branch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Shady Shores between 1992 and 2020, burning about 281 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	12
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
18 June 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.7 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OGEMAW 08 - POWERLINE FIRE
1 June 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	CHAINSAW
6 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OGEMAW 03 - SCHMIDTT FIRE
6 May 2000	Smoking	2.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	BORDER
6 May 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 1994	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 May 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 May 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OGEMAW 18 - GROUSE HAVEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ogemaw 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 Shady Shores: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Fitzgerald and Powell Inc Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ogemaw 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lupton	3.2 miles	11
Camp Lu Lay Lea	5.1 miles	10
South Branch	6.2 miles	11
Fayettes Corner	6.4 miles	11
Rose City	7.6 miles	11
Goodar	7.7 miles	10
Selkirk	8.1 miles	10
Campbells Corners	11.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1621571. 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.