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Winegars, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48624. The Survey maps it on the Wooden Shoe Village quadrangle.

Winegars within Gladwin 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

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Winegars between 1994 and 2019, burning about 55 acres in total. 1 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Other causes1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
18 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGLADWIN 14
25 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGLADWIN 08
7 May 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGLADWIN 04
6 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGLADWIN 14
5 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGLADWIN RURAL URBAN FD 0000075 - 2019
4 May 2009Other causes2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGLADWIN #14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gladwin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Winegars: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Gladwin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winegars in 1 storm report in 2006: 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
May 2006Thunderstorm WindWinegars$2,000Trees downed near intersection of Grim Road and South Center Fireline Road.

Every storm recorded in Gladwin 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
Wooden Shoe Village2.4 miles10
White Star2.5 miles10
Highwood3.4 miles10
Secord5.0 miles10
Billings6.6 miles10
Gladwin6.9 miles10
Dale7.0 miles11
McClure7.2 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122591497The 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 1617948. 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.