Torch River, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Clearwater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49676. It stands on Rapid River. The Survey maps it on the Torch River quadrangle.

Torch River within Kalkaska County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Elk Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Torch River quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Torch River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	3
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	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
5 August 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	6.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MILTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000108 - 2019
13 August 2001	Fireworks	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 July 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.6 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 June 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 June 2020	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH TORCH LAKE FD 94 - 2020
19 June 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLEARWATER TOWNSHIP FD 1920635 - 2019

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
Rapid City	2.5 miles	12
Barker Creek	4.9 miles	12
Leetsville	10.3 miles	14
Kalkaska	11.3 miles	15
Westwood	11.8 miles	14
Crofton	13.1 miles	15
South Boardman	14.7 miles	14
Darragh	15.4 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 Q126189681

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 1614972. 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.