Wauban Beach, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Tuscarora Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49749. It lies near Griswold Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Burt Lake quadrangle.

Wauban Beach within Cheboygan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Wolverine quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Petoskey quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Burt Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Wauban Beach between 1992 and 2019, burning about 85 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	23
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Recreation and ceremony	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2
Smoking	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
6 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2016	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 July 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cheboygan 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
Chippewa Beach	0.7 miles	12
Cold Springs	2.4 miles	12
Grand View Beach	2.6 miles	12
Indian River	2.7 miles	12
Topinabee	3.1 miles	12
Giauque Beach	3.2 miles	12
Springwell Heights	3.2 miles	12
Pittsburg Landing	3.5 miles	12

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 Q122567854

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 1615887. 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.