Walton Junction, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Fife Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49633. The Survey maps it on the Walton quadrangle.

Walton Junction within Grand Traverse County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fife Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Walton quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Walton Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	20
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
24 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	2.9 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 August 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE 03 - DELL RD.
11 August 2001	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 July 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Walton	0.5 miles	13
McManus Corner	3.0 miles	13
Fife Lake	4.4 miles	13
Summit City	6.2 miles	12
Kingsley	8.1 miles	12
Mayfield	9.6 miles	13
Jacks Landing	10.4 miles	14
Devils Elbow	11.8 miles	14

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 Q122539062

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 1617920. 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.