Sullivans Landing, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Burt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49839. It stands on Sullivan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Au Sable Point quadrangle.

Sullivans Landing within Alger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1958 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Au Sable Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Au Sable Point quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Sullivans Landing between 1993 and 2018, burning about 11 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
16 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore	SEVEN MILE
10 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore	7 - MILE CREEK
1 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore	AU SABLE POINT
2 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore	RIM ROAD
14 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	GORMAN
1 August 2012	Natural	10 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KING ONE
18 July 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore	KINGSTON
12 July 1997	Natural	under an acre	Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore	FLY

Every fire recorded in Alger 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
Sunrise Landing	10.1 miles	9
Grand Marais	11.3 miles	10
Green Haven	12.2 miles	9
Melstrand	17.3 miles	11
Williams Crossing	19.3 miles	11
Myren	19.6 miles	11
Van Meer	21.4 miles	11
Star	23.2 miles	12

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 Q122595839

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 1617879. 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.