BlockTamarack, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Watersmeet Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49969. It stands on Tamarack River. The Survey maps it on the Fuller quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Watersmeet quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Fuller quadrangle1:25000
- 1990 USGS Wakefield quadrangle1:100000
- 1999 USGS Fuller quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Tamarack between 2005 and 2012, burning about 54 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ottawa National Forest | SITE 11 |
| 21 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ottawa National Forest | BRUSH HOG FIRE |
| 30 May 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ottawa National Forest | MARION |
| 7 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 53 acres | Ottawa National Forest | OLD US 2 FIRE |
| 21 April 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ottawa National Forest | TUTTLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fuller | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Bonifas | 6.8 miles | 15 | |
| Watersmeet | 7.4 miles | 15 | |
| Katakitckon Indian Village | 10.3 miles | 15 | |
| Beaton | 15.7 miles | 14 | |
| Stickley | 18.7 miles | 13 | |
| Thayer | 22.3 miles | 13 | |
| Gogebic | 24.7 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617890. 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.