Witbeck, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Republic Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49879. The Survey maps it on the Witch Lake quadrangle.

Witbeck within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1899 USGS Witbeck quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Witch Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Witch Lake 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
1989 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Witbeck between 2005 and 2019, burning about 12 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	2
Smoking	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
9 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LONG LAKE FIRE
27 July 2015	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HELEN LAKE
12 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 June 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ASH PILE
23 May 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 May 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FENCE RIVER
7 April 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	3.3 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUNDOG LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Witch Lake	2.8 miles	16
Republic	6.5 miles	12
Humboldt Mine	12.9 miles	12
Wobic	13.2 miles	15
Beacon	13.5 miles	15
Champion	13.9 miles	15
Humboldt	13.9 miles	12
Clarksburg	14.6 miles	13

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 Q122547151

The 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 1617950. 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.