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Austin Corners, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Groveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48350. The Survey maps it on the Davisburg quadrangle.

Austin Corners within Oakland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Austin Corners between 2003 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 use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
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
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH OAKLAND COUNTY FIRE AUTH 798 - 2020
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGROVELAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000707 - 2018
15 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH OAKLAND COUNTY FIRE AUTH 552 - 2019
15 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000601 - 2018
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 19354 - 2019
26 April 2003Smoking3.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRANDON FD 0000358 - 2019
27 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRANDON FD 0000309 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Austin Corners: 7 producers, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sebewaing Limekiln MillLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Andersonville Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Buffalo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Buffalo Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Buffalo Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Holly Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kurtz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tri-City Aggregates Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oakland 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
Jossman Acres2.5 miles13
Groveland Corners2.9 miles17
Davisburg3.0 miles17
Springfield3.2 miles21
Andersonville4.1 miles21
Brandon Gardens4.3 miles13
Ortonville5.6 miles13
Five Points5.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 620358. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.