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Michigan Mills, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in West Turin town. It lies in ZIP code area 13325. It stands on Sixmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the High Market quadrangle.

Michigan Mills within Lewis County

Then and now

1906 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Michigan Mills, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Michigan Mills, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Michigan Mills between 2001 and 2018, burning about 6 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
6 June 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 June 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 June 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 June 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2001Smoking6.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 December 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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
Old Campbellwood Wye3.7 miles19
Page4.1 miles18
Monteola4.5 miles20
New Campbellwood Wye6.4 miles19
North Osceola6.5 miles19
Fish Creek6.7 miles19
Wetmore6.8 miles18
Welch Hill7.6 miles21

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 Q122570782The 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 972796. 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.