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Waucedah, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Waucedah Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49892. It stands on Cheney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waucedah quadrangle.

Waucedah within Dickinson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Waucedah between 1992 and 2019, burning about 98 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORWAY VFD 201957 - 2019
7 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRAY FIELD
30 June 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDICKINSON 0002
3 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORWAY VFD 201942 - 2019
8 May 1993Arson/incendiarism4.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 May 1993Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Waucedah: 6 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Appleton Iron MineIronPast Producer
Breen MineIronPast Producer1849, 1877, 1907
Emmett MineIronPast Producer1849, 1878, 1884
Loretto MineIronPast Producer1849, 1893, 1940
Sturgeon ProspectIronProspect1849, 1925
Tom's Iron ShaftIronPast Producer
Turners ExplorationIronProspect
VeronaIronPast Producer1849, 1900, 1904

Every working recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waucedah in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWaucedah-Many trees down north of U.S. 2 and along M-69 for 10 miles.

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Loretto3.8 miles10
Vulcan6.3 miles10
Norway8.6 miles11
Quinnesec13.2 miles11
Foster City13.8 miles9
Hylas13.8 miles9
Hardwood14.0 miles9
White Birch Estates15.4 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on WaucedahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122593113The 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 1625069. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.