Taffeltown, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Garfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49633. It stands on Waterhole Creek. The Survey maps it on the Smithville quadrangle.

Taffeltown within Kalkaska County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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 Kalkaska quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Smithville quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Taffeltown between 1992 and 2015, burning about 80 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2001	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KALKASKA 06
29 July 2001	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 June 2012	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KALKASKA 12 - S. SNYDER
31 May 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 May 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 May 1992	Smoking	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalkaska 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
Smithville	1.1 miles	14
Millers Corners	3.2 miles	14
Giddings	3.2 miles	14
Deibert	4.3 miles	14
McGee	4.5 miles	14
Sharon	6.1 miles	14
Lodi	6.9 miles	15
Spencer	7.7 miles	14

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 Q122595121

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 1617888. 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.