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Traverse Bay, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Schoolcraft Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49945. The Survey maps it on the Gay quadrangle.

Traverse Bay within Houghton County

On record in Traverse Bay

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Traverse Bay between 1996 and 2008, burning about 396 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2

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 2005Arson/incendiarism388 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICE LAKE 2
24 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2008Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLUEBERRY HILL
11 August 2008Smoking2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICE LAKE III
22 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 May 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Houghton 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
Gregoryville8.4 miles13
Lake Linden9.2 miles13
Copper City10.2 miles14
Hubbell10.5 miles13
Rabbit Bay11.1 miles11
Wolverine11.1 miles14
Kearsarge11.1 miles14
Phillipsville11.2 miles14

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 Q122572821The 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 1618007. 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.