BlockWalsh, Michigan
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Seney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49883. The Survey maps it on the Walsh quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1931 USGS Driggs Lake SW quadrangle1:31680
- 1958 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Walsh quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Munising quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Walsh between 2004 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Seney National Wildlife Refuge | DIVERSON SOUTH |
| 12 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Seney National Wildlife Refuge | DIVERSION GATE |
| 21 July 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Seney National Wildlife Refuge | DRIGGS RIVER ROAD |
| 20 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Seney National Wildlife Refuge | 28 FIRE |
| 20 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.6 acres | 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 1617919. 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.