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Vienna Junction, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Albert Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49756. The Survey maps it on the Lewiston quadrangle. It stands 1,227 feet above sea level.

Vienna Junction within Montmorency County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Vienna Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 214 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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
22 September 2008Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWILLIAMS TRAIL-CRAWFORD
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBERT TOWNSHIP/LEWISTON FD 0000330 - 2019
25 August 2008Natural7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSCODA 07
24 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTMORENCY 14
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBERT TOWNSHIP/LEWISTON FD 0000303 - 2019
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBERT TOWNSHIP/LEWISTON FD 0000291 - 2019
10 August 2007Recreation and ceremony26 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBERT TOWNSHIP/LEWISTON FD 0000250 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montmorency 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 Vienna Junction: 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
Glancy Montmorency County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Winkleman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montmorency 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
Birchwood Beach0.5 miles16
Lewiston1.0 miles16
Garland Village1.8 miles16
Bigelow7.3 miles16
Donnelly7.9 miles16
Hetherton9.5 miles13
Atlanta12.9 miles12
Avery16.4 miles12

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 Q16902706The 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 1615580. 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.