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Shingleton, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Munising Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49884. The Survey maps it on the Shingleton quadrangle. It stands 827 feet above sea level.

Shingleton within Alger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Shingleton between 1993 and 2018, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2003Natural1.0 acresHiawatha National ForestMARSH
16 July 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2018Other causesunder an acreHiawatha National ForestSHINGLETON 2 FIRE
20 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alger County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shingleton in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death. 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
June 1998LightningShingleton1 killedLightning strike killed a fork lift operator at a lumber mill in Shingleton.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindShingleton$1,000Several trees estimated to be five to six inches in diameter were knocked down.
June 2017HailShingleton-There was a public report of pea to nickel sized hail at Shingleton.
June 2017HailShingleton-There was a public report of dime to quarter sized hail five miles north of Steuben.
June 2011HailShingleton-Time of the report was estimated from the radar. Other hail observed was between three-quarters to one inch in diameter.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindShingleton-Power lines and 10 to 12 inch diameter trees were blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindShingleton-Four-inch diameter tree branches were broken off.
July 2002Funnel CloudShingleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alger 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
Doty3.6 miles12
Evelyn3.6 miles12
Star4.1 miles12
Van Meer4.9 miles11
Myren5.8 miles11
Juniper6.4 miles12
Indian Town6.5 miles12
Williams Crossing6.6 miles11

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 Q108224126The 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 637811. 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.

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.