Summit City, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Paradise Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49649. The Survey maps it on the Kingsley quadrangle.

Summit City within Grand Traverse County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Kingsley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Kingsley quadrangle1:25000
1983 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Summit City between 1992 and 2019, burning about 57 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	16
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
23 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	2.9 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.3 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE 08 - BARRETT RD.
12 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE 03 - DELL RD.
10 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	0000215 - 2018
10 August 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 1992	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 July 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 July 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WEXFORD 02

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse 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
Kingsley	2.6 miles	12
McManus Corner	3.2 miles	13
Mayfield	5.2 miles	13
Walton Junction	6.2 miles	13
Walton	6.5 miles	13
Hannah	6.8 miles	12
Hilltop	8.6 miles	12
Fife Lake	8.9 miles	13

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.

Wikipedia article on Summit City	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48840095	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 639059. 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.