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Trist, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Waterloo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49240. The Survey maps it on the Grass Lake quadrangle.

Trist within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Trist between 1996 and 2020, burning about 171 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
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
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTOBRIDGE AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY 201910
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRASS LAKE FD 106 - 2020
2 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWASHTENAW 01
6 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHENRIETTA TOWNSHIP FD 100 - 2020
4 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRASS LAKE FD 78 - 2020
3 April 2019Smoking2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTOBRIDGE AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY 201903
3 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRASS LAKE FD 85 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Trist: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Grass Lake Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Whittaker and Gooding Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Waterloo3.4 miles15
Munith4.6 miles13
Francisco5.2 miles15
Grass Lake5.9 miles15
Roots6.5 miles12
Holiday Manor Park7.3 miles12
Leoni7.3 miles17
Pleasant Lake8.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617898. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.