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Snug Harbor, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Whitefish Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49768. It stands on Cheney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Emerson quadrangle.

Snug Harbor within Chippewa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Snug Harbor between 1996 and 2018, burning about 75 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
8 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 2007Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRIVER MOUTH
9 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPOWER LINE
25 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2018Natural34 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPREACHER LAKES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Snug Harbor: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chippewa County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
I L Whitehead Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chippewa 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
Emerson2.2 miles12
Paradise5.3 miles12
Timberlost5.4 miles14
Whitehouse Landing5.4 miles14
Shelldrake8.7 miles12
Eckerman13.2 miles13
Seewhy14.0 miles13
Hulbert14.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1621667. 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.