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Topinabee, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mullett Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49791. The Survey maps it on the Indian River quadrangle. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Topinabee within Cheboygan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Topinabee between 1992 and 2019, burning about 100 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2016Debris and open burning6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2004Natural3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2008Recreation and ceremony5.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHEBOYGAN 04

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cheboygan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Topinabee in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2004HailTopinabee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cheboygan 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
Giauque Beach0.1 miles12
Royal Oak Beach1.1 miles12
Cold Springs1.7 miles12
Grand View Beach1.9 miles12
Veery Point2.7 miles11
Miami Beach3.0 miles12
Wauban Beach3.1 miles12
Long Point3.6 miles11

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 TopinabeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116007204The 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 1614963. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.