BlockVail, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Au Train Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49862. The Survey maps it on the Forest Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1958 USGS Au Train quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Munising quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Forest Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Vail between 1993 and 2006, burning about 22 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 August 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.1 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | BENT HORN CABIN |
| 15 August 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | OTTER LAKE |
| 23 July 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | not named |
| 24 June 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | COALWOOD |
| 26 May 1998 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | GOBBLER |
| 19 May 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stillman | 1.2 miles | 11 | |
| Coalwood | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| Forest Lake | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Dixon | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Munising Junction | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Slapneck | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Au Train | 7.3 miles | 11 | |
| Christmas | 7.9 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617908. 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.