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Yuba, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Acme Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49690. It stands on Yuba Creek. The Survey maps it on the Williamsburg quadrangle.

Yuba within Grand Traverse County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Yuba between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan AgencyTURTLE CREEK 2
5 August 2004Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2001Fireworks3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2001Recreation and ceremony3.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2020Smokingunder an acreMichigan AgencyTCC
27 June 2014Debris and open burning5.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 0001
23 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPENINSULA TOWNSHIP FD 0000258 - 2019
15 June 1992Smoking2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yuba in 1 storm report in 2021: 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
August 2021Thunderstorm WindYuba-Mesonet station miwmt in Williamsburg.

Every storm recorded in Grand Traverse 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
Angel2.4 miles12
Bates3.6 miles12
Acme4.2 miles12
Williamsburg4.5 miles12
Mapleton5.6 miles12
Fivemile Corner6.3 miles13
Mabel6.5 miles12
Devils Elbow9.5 miles14

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 YubaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8060093The 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 1617958. 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.

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.