• The Great Michigan Fire was a series of simultaneous forest fires in the state of Michigan in the United States in 1871. They were possibly caused (or...
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    The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people...
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    tragedy. Great Chicago Fire Great Michigan Fire Port Huron Fire of 1871 Great Hinckley Fire of 1894 Baudette fire of 1910 Cloquet fire of 1918 Thumb Fire of...
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  • The Thumb Fire took place on September 5, 1881, in the Thumb area of Michigan in the United States. The fire, which burned over a million acres (4,000 km2)...
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  • 1949 – The great forest fire of 1949 in the Landes Forest, wildfire, 256,000 acres (1,040 km2) lost, 82 people killed. 1949 – Mann Gulch fire 1953 – Rattlesnake...
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    Midwestern United States. These fires include the Great Chicago Fire, Peshtigo Fire, and Great Michigan Fire. In total, the fires burnt more than 3,000,000...
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  • 1869 Great Chicago Fire (1871) Great Michigan Fire (1871) Great Boston Fire of 1872 1877 Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick Great Vancouver Fire (1886)...
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    The Great Fire of 1805 occurred on June 11, 1805, in the city of Detroit, in the Michigan Territory of the United States. The fire destroyed almost everything...
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  • The Port Huron Fire of October 8, 1871 (one of a series of fires known collectively as the Great Fire of 1871 or the Great Michigan Fire) burned a number...
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    Michigan Fire (which included the Port Huron Fire of 1871), Manistee and Port Huron, Michigan, also burned at the same time. Also known as the Great Midwest...
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    Michigan (/ˈmɪʃɪɡən/ MISH-ig-ən) is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States. It borders Wisconsin to the northwest...
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  • 1871: 1871 Great Chicago Fire The Great Michigan Fire Port Huron Fire of 1871 in Port Huron, Michigan Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin This disambiguation page...
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    Midwestern cities and towns ravaged by fires in 1871. Its ruins now lie buried beneath the sand dunes of the Lake Michigan shoreline at the mouth of the Kalamazoo...
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    Wildfires in Michigan. Michigan portal Oscoda Fire of 1945 Areal photo of the Blue Lakes Fire on May 14, 2022 Wildfires and Firewise, Michigan State University...
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  • Second Great New Orleans Fire of 1794, 212 structures destroyed. 1795 – Copenhagen fire of 1795 1805 – Great Fire of 1805: Detroit, Michigan Territory...
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    destroyed by fire; on the same day that the Peshtigo Fire, the Great Chicago Fire, and fires in Port Huron and Holland occurred, the Great Michigan Fire burned...
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    officially incorporated by Michigan State Legislature on March 29, 1871. Most of the city was lost in the Great Michigan Fire of 1871. Less than one year...
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    Despite setbacks from the Great Michigan Fire in 1871 in Manistee and other lumbering ports, lumbering in Northern Michigan greatly increased. New mechanical...
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  • uttarakhand forest fire 1997 Indonesian forest fires 1989 Mount Carmel forest fire 1995 Jerusalem forest fire 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire – Started on 2...
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    Detroit (redirect from Detroit Michigan)
    /ˈdiːtrɔɪt/, DEE-troyt) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the largest U.S. city on the Canadian border and the county seat...
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    day as the Great Chicago fire, the Holland, Michigan fire, the Port Huron Fire of 1871, and the Great Michigan Fire (in Manistee, Michigan). Peshtigo...
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    thoroughfare is Huron Street. Two major fires mark the history of North Branch. The Great Michigan Fire in 1871 and the Thumb Fire in 1881 destroyed many parts of...
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    Hutchins and James McCormick in 1837. A fire (possibly related to the Great Chicago Fire or Great Michigan Fire) destroyed the village in October 1871...
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    The 2024 United States presidential election in Michigan is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections...
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    The Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) is a regional water authority in the U.S. state of Michigan. It provides drinking water treatment, drinking water...
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    SS Alpena (1942) (category Ships built in Ecorse, Michigan)
    is a lake freighter. She was built in 1942 by the Great Lakes Engineering Works in Ecorse, Michigan, to carry iron ore. She was originally owned by the...
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    several major fires that occurred simultaneously in America, including the Great Chicago Fire, the Great Michigan Fire, and the Peshtigo Fire, claiming that...
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    Potawatomi (category Native American tribes in Michigan)
    Neshnabémwen) is a Central Algonquian language and is spoken around the Great Lakes in Michigan and Wisconsin. It is also spoken by Potawatomi in Kansas, Oklahoma...
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    List of battles with most United States military fatalities List of hotel fires in the United States List of the deadliest firefighter disasters in the...
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    Institute The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire – Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco website The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire Archived August...
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