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Strongs, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Chippewa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49728. It stands on Creek Number Eight. The Survey maps it on the Strongs quadrangle.

Strongs within Chippewa County

On record in Strongs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Strongs between 1994 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestECKERMAN CORNER
19 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresHiawatha National ForestCAINE SIDING
14 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National ForestNOODLE
9 July 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHiawatha National ForestTRAILER TRASH
5 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHiawatha National ForestSALT
5 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestBUCKET FIRE
4 July 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreHiawatha National ForestSOD FIRE
3 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestCLUELESS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Strongs Corner0.8 miles15
Eckerman Corner3.3 miles13
Eckerman3.5 miles13
Seewhy6.6 miles13
Hulbert9.6 miles14
Trout Lake11.6 miles12
Raco13.1 miles14
Cordell13.3 miles11

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 Q122593302The 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 1621799. 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.