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Sunrise 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 49884. The Survey maps it on the Au Sable Point SE quadrangle.

Sunrise 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.

Fires near this place

14 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Sunrise Landing between 2003 and 2020, burning about 54 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
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
12 September 2012Natural2.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEWATT LAKE
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLYDE LAKE
10 August 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2020Natural7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPHANTOM FIRE
22 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2004Natural6.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Green Haven3.9 miles9
Sullivans Landing10.1 miles9
Grand Marais11.2 miles10
Melstrand17.9 miles11
Myren19.3 miles11
Williams Crossing19.6 miles11
Star20.4 miles12
Van Meer21.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617882. 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.