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Banfield, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Johnstown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49017. The Survey maps it on the Banfield quadrangle.

Banfield within Barry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

18 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Banfield between 2003 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
25 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD TOWNSHIP FD 00250 - 2019
9 April 2019Natural7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesJOHNSTOWN FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION 0000097 - 2019
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUGUSTA-ROSS TWP FD 0000073 - 2019
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined52 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARRY 01
25 April 2003Debris and open burning20 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUGUSTA-ROSS TWP FD 0000085 - 2019
21 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHICKORY CORNERS FD 0000057 - 2019
5 March 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD TOWNSHIP FD 00051 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Banfield: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Rieth-Riley Construction Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barry County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Banfield in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBanfield$25,000Several large trees and tree limbs were blown down.
August 2001HailBanfield$5,000no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBanfield-Tree damage on the south side of Fine Lake.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBanfield-Multiple trees down and snapped along Baseline Road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBanfield-One boat flipped on Fine Lake.
May 2014HailBanfield-A trained spotter reported one inch diameter hail in Banfield.
June 1998HailBanfield-A trained weather spotter reported golfball-sized hail covered the ground 2 to 3 inches deep in Banfield.

Every storm recorded in Barry 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
Vickery Landing2.9 miles12
Cedar Creek4.4 miles12
Dowling4.5 miles12
Hickory Corners4.9 miles19
Lacey5.6 miles19
Delton6.8 miles19
Woodlawn Beach7.4 miles19
Cloverdale7.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 620543. 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.

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.