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Whitehouse Landing, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Whitefish Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49768. The Survey maps it on the Timberlost quadrangle.

Whitehouse Landing within Chippewa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Whitehouse Landing between 1996 and 2016, burning about 45 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
8 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2007Natural5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPOWER LINE
25 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Whitehouse Landing: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Chippewa County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
I L Whitehead Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chippewa 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
Timberlost0.7 miles14
Snug Harbor5.4 miles12
Emerson7.6 miles12
Paradise8.8 miles12
Shelldrake11.4 miles12
Hulbert13.7 miles14
Seewhy14.3 miles13
Vermilion14.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617941. 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.