Woodville, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pinconning Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48650. The Survey maps it on the Crump quadrangle.

Woodville within Bay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Crump quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Midland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

12,822 words on this township

History of Bay County, Michigan with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Pinconning Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Pinconning Township - 12,822 words.

Fires near this place

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Woodville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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	5
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
31 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MT FOREST TOWNSHIP FD 0000096 - 2019
26 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PINCONNING-FRASER FD 0000184 - 2019
12 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PINCONNING-FRASER FD 0000180 - 2019
25 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PINCONNING-FRASER FD 0000167 - 2019
13 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	STANDISH FIRE AUTHORITY 0000063 - 2019
1 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	26 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 April 1992	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 April 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PINCONNING-FRASER FD 0000158 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay 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
Nine Mile	2.2 miles	11
Pinconning	3.3 miles	9
Mount Forest	4.9 miles	11
Almeda Beach	6.4 miles	9
Meyers Beach	6.7 miles	9
Bentley	8.0 miles	10
Crump	8.5 miles	11
Linwood	9.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617955. 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.