Skyline Village, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Beaver Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49738. The Survey maps it on the Pere Cheney quadrangle.

Skyline Village within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1949 USGS Grayling quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Pere Cheney quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Grayling quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Skyline Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,654 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	17
Recreation and ceremony	17
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Smoking	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4

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
20 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 September 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BEAVER CREEK FD 19233 - 2019
10 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	16 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Skyline Village: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Steele Brothers Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford 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
Pere Cheney	3.4 miles	13
Rasmus	5.6 miles	14
Lake Margrethe	6.1 miles	14
Grayling	6.3 miles	14
Collens Landing	6.3 miles	14
Danish Landing	7.2 miles	14
Louis Cabin Landing	7.4 miles	14
Deerheart Valley	7.4 miles	14

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 Q122552284

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 1617852. 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.