Simmons, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Marquette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49745. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pontchartrain Shores quadrangle.

Simmons within Mackinac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 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
1964 USGS Pontchartrain Shores quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Sault Ste. Marie South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Simmons between 1999 and 2020, burning about 62 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 burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
24 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	360
17 July 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	CRIDERMAN
19 June 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	FATHERS DAY
31 May 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 May 2003	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	BAY ROAD
21 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FISH ROAD
2 April 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	CARP RIVER
14 April 2003	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	SIMMONS ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Pontchartrain Shores

Every fire recorded in Mackinac 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
Pontchartrain Shores	4.6 miles	11
Charles	7.6 miles	11
Hessel	11.0 miles	11
Rockview	12.4 miles	12
Patrick Landing	13.9 miles	10
Cedarville	14.1 miles	10
Allenville	14.2 miles	12
Moran	14.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1621620. 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.