BlockShelldrake, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Whitefish Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49768. It stands on Shelldrake River. The Survey maps it on the Shelldrake quadrangle.
On record in Shelldrake
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 1 record
Whitefish Point Lighthouselisted 1973
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1951 USGS Shelldrake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Shelldrake quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Two Hearted River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Shelldrake between 2005 and 2018, burning about 30 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WHITEFISH TOWNSHIP VFD WTF1834 - 2018 |
| 1 August 2012 | Natural | 2.2 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HIGHLANDS TRAIL |
| 3 July 2005 | Natural | 2.3 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 June 2005 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SHELLDRAKE |
| 28 April 2018 | Natural | 6.9 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WIDEWATERS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paradise | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Whitefish Point | 7.1 miles | 11 | |
| Emerson | 8.4 miles | 12 | |
| Vermilion | 8.5 miles | 11 | |
| Snug Harbor | 8.7 miles | 12 | |
| Timberlost | 10.8 miles | 14 | |
| Whitehouse Landing | 11.4 miles | 14 | |
| Eckerman | 21.6 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 637729. 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.