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Slaybaugh Corner, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Cedar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49677. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Slaybaugh Corner quadrangle.

Slaybaugh Corner within Osceola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Slaybaugh Corner between 1993 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
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
17 September 2002Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREED CITY FD 340 - 2020
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHERSEY TOWNSHIP FD 0000120 - 2019
6 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREED CITY FD 387 - 2018
10 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSOUTH PEACOCK
31 July 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSCEOLA 06 - WHITEMORE POND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osceola 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
Ashton4.6 miles13
Orono5.0 miles13
Dewing's (historical)5.7 miles14
Reed City6.6 miles13
Le Roy6.6 miles12
Hersey6.7 miles14
Evart9.4 miles13
Dighton10.8 miles13

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 Q122560758The 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 1617865. 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.