Allenton, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mason Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49112. The Survey maps it on the Adamsville quadrangle.

Allenton within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

1948 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1949 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Adamsville quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Allenton between 2019 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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	14
Natural	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
22 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 487 - 2019
31 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 408 - 2020
5 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EDWARDSBURG FD 0000072 - 2019
2 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 215 - 2020
8 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 182 - 2019
7 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 161 - 2020
7 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 178 - 2019
28 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 155 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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
Adamsville	1.7 miles	16
Kessington	4.2 miles	16
Eagle Lake Estates	4.3 miles	14
Union	5.8 miles	17
Calvin Center	5.9 miles	16
Edwardsburg	6.0 miles	14
Brownsville	7.8 miles	16
Eagle Point	8.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617412. 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.