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White Pine Village, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Pere Marquette Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49431. The Survey maps it on the Ludington quadrangle.

White Pine Village within Mason County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of White Pine Village between 2005 and 2019, burning about 64 acres in total. None 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
17 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPERE MARQUETTE FD 0000204 - 2019
15 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPERE MARQUETTE FD 0000202 - 2019
8 May 2005Recreation and ceremony4.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDALTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000364 - 2019
14 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPERE MARQUETTE FD 0000120 - 2019
5 April 2010Debris and open burning40 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASON 02
24 April 2008Debris and open burning13 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestOASIS
23 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPERE MARQUETTE FD 0000112 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of White Pine Village: 3 producers, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Bromine, Calcium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite. 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
Dow Chemical - LudingtonHaliteProducerSedimentary
Dow-LudingtonMagnesite, Bromine, CalciumProducer1942
Ludington MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dow Chemicals--Ludington, Mich.MagnesiteProducer
Harbison-WalkerMagnesitePlant1957

Every working recorded in Mason 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
Buttersville1.4 miles10
Ludington2.0 miles10
North Epworth3.7 miles10
Epworth Assembly3.8 miles10
Lincoln (historical)4.6 miles10
Meisenheimer Corners5.1 miles10
Riverton (historical)5.8 miles10
Weimer6.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2106886. 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.