Stringtown, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Algansee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49082. The Survey maps it on the Allen quadrangle.

Stringtown within Branch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Allen quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Stringtown between 2018 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
1 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 114 - 2019
29 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 112 - 2019
27 April 2018	Natural	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 56 - 2018
14 April 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 51 - 2018
12 April 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 52 - 2019
9 March 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 34 - 2020
27 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 38 - 2019
27 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 37 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Branch 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 Stringtown: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Wolverine Prtlnd Cmt Co Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Branch 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
Fisher	2.6 miles	10
Algansee	4.3 miles	10
Quincy	4.9 miles	10
California	6.5 miles	10
Crystal Beach	7.9 miles	10
Sans Souci Beach	8.1 miles	10
Canada Shores	8.6 miles	10
Ray	8.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617876. 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.