BlockWalgamor Corners, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Troy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49309. The Survey maps it on the Walkup Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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 Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS White Cloud quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS White Cloud NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Walkup Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Big Rapids quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
75 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Walgamor Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 401 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | BEAVER |
| 21 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | DIANE |
| 16 August 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | ISLAND LAKE |
| 13 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | TOY |
| 7 July 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | OSBOURNE |
| 4 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | CANDLE |
| 4 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | MAGNUM |
| 4 July 2006 | Fireworks | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | SLACKER FIRE |
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.
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 Q122564477 | The 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 1622854. 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.