BlockVega, Michigan
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Meyer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49873. It stands on Vega Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vega quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Foster City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Vega quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
15 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Vega between 1992 and 2013, burning about 127 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 July 2012 | Natural | 1.4 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GRUMPY OLD MEN |
| 18 July 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 17 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ORO GRADE |
| 16 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.1 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FLOPPY HAWK |
| 14 June 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FRIDAY FUNDAY |
| 9 May 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 May 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617910. 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.