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Tent City, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lyon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48653. The Survey maps it on the Cote Dame Marie quadrangle.

Tent City within Roscommon 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.

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 Tent City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
8 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use16 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2001Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2004Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution2.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRAWFORD 09 - MILITARY RD FIRE
25 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDORT 2 - CRAWFORD
25 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDORT 1 - CRAWFORD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roscommon 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
Higgins Lake2.6 miles12
Hillcrest3.7 miles12
Lyon Manor5.0 miles11
Meads Landing6.6 miles12
Michelson8.5 miles12
Sharps Corners9.2 miles11
Houghton Point9.5 miles13
Nellsville11.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617893. 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.