Sid Town, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Oscoda Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48750. The Survey maps it on the Sid Town quadrangle.

Sid Town within Iosco County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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
1959 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1984 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1989 USGS Sid Town quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

73 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Sid Town between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,117 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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	22
Recreation and ceremony	21
Arson/incendiarism	11
Debris and open burning	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	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
17 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	LOWER LANDING
8 August 2004	Recreation and ceremony	9.4 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	LOUD CREEK
6 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	GORDON
5 August 2012	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.4 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	DEAD END
3 August 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	LUMBERMANS
3 August 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	PINKNEY
29 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	ESCAPADE
22 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	SANDY'S FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iosco 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
Wilber	7.6 miles	13
Foote Site Village	8.7 miles	13
Sand Lake	10.1 miles	14
The Jackpines	10.2 miles	12
Hale	11.7 miles	12
Hemlock	13.1 miles	14
Meadow	13.1 miles	14
East Tawas	13.4 miles	13

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 Q122572890

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 1617117. 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.