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Traunik, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Limestone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49816. The Survey maps it on the Chatham quadrangle.

Traunik within Alger County

On record in Traunik

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Traunik between 1992 and 2020, burning about 85 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 burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
10 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 1992Naturalunder an acreSeney National Wildlife RefugeEAGLE NEST
20 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHiawatha National Forestnot named
5 May 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreHiawatha National ForestSTRAITS LAKE
4 May 1994Debris and open burning35 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMATHIS TOWNSHIP FD 0000720 - 2020
28 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMATHIS TOWNSHIP FD 0000519 - 2019
10 April 1995Debris and open burning47 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alger County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Traunik in 2 storm reports in 2023: 2 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 2023HailTraunik-Two inch diameter hail was reported near Traunik.
July 2023HailTraunik-There was a delayed report of dime to nickel-sized hail in Traunik which shredded leaves.

Every storm recorded in Alger 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
Limestone2.1 miles11
Trenary4.5 miles11
Ladoga4.7 miles11
Diffin4.9 miles12
Kiva6.1 miles11
Mantila Camp6.2 miles12
Chatham6.4 miles11
Eben Junction6.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122593593The 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 1621939. 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.