BlockWooden Shoe Village, 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. It stands on Little Tobacco River. The Survey maps it on the Wooden Shoe Village quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Wooden Shoe Village quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Midland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
40 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Wooden Shoe Village between 1994 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 July 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GLADWIN 16 |
| 25 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 June 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 June 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SECORD TOWNSHIP FIRE\RESCUE 0000067 - 2019 |
| 8 May 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GLADWIN 08 |
| 7 May 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.4 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GLADWIN 04 |
| 6 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GLADWIN 14 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wooden Shoe Village: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Clay Prospect | Clay | Prospect |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Star | 0.5 miles | 10 | |
| Winegars | 2.4 miles | 10 | |
| Secord | 2.5 miles | 10 | |
| Highwood | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| McClure | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Gladwin | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Wagarville | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Sugar Rapids | 8.0 miles | 9 |
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 Q122559321 | 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 1616745. 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.