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Whitney, Michigan

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Harris Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49807. The Survey maps it on the Whitney quadrangle.

Whitney within Menominee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Whitney between 1994 and 2016, burning about 106 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPACH RD
3 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMENOMINEE 0003
28 August 2003Natural1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresHiawatha National ForestCRIBBAGE
22 July 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLSON RD.
26 May 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Agency004
20 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menominee 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 Whitney: 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
Menimone County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Menimonee County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Menominee 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
Perronville2.5 miles9
Eustis5.2 miles9
LaBranche5.7 miles8
Faunus8.0 miles9
Houle8.1 miles7
Indiantown8.1 miles7
Harris8.5 miles9
Wilson8.5 miles7

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 WhitneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20710711The 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 1617943. 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.