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Silver Creek Estates, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chocolay Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49855. It stands on Chocolay River. The Survey maps it on the Harvey quadrangle.

Silver Creek Estates within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Silver Creek Estates between 1992 and 2019, burning about 52 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHOCOLAY TOWNSHIP VFD 0006419 - 2019
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARQUETTE FIRE/RESCUE 191575 - 2019
22 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHOCOLAY TOWNSHIP VFD 0003318 - 2018
6 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMCCLELLAN
15 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Silver Creek Estates: 2 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
480 Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lindberg QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Copper and Zinc DepositCopper, ZincOccurrence
Kona SulfidesCopperPast Producer1888
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marquette 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
Harvey0.6 miles14
Lakewood1.0 miles14
Beaver Grove2.5 miles14
Pioneer Estates3.7 miles18
Marquette4.2 miles18
Sands5.3 miles17
Green Garden5.6 miles14
Mangum6.0 miles14

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 Q122594981The 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 2130638. 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.