BlockWellington, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Marenisco Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49947. It stands on Finn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stateline Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1955 USGS Marenisco quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Stateline Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Wakefield quadrangle1:100000
- 1999 USGS Stateline Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wellington between 1993 and 2019, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MARENISCO VFD 0070719 - 2019 |
| 25 July 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ottawa National Forest | BOBCAT |
| 15 July 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Ottawa National Forest | CPR FIRE |
| 22 May 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Ottawa National Forest | BLADE FIRE |
| 30 April 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | Ottawa National Forest | OJIBWAY ROAD |
| 22 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ottawa National Forest | WOOD TURTLE |
| 14 October 1993 | Smoking | 3.7 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wellington in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 2 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2015 | Hail | Wellington | - | The spotter south of Marenisco observed dime sized hail for five minutes. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Wellington | - | no account filed |
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 1622080. 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.
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.