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Bentleys Corners, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Clarendon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49245. The Survey maps it on the Litchfield quadrangle.

Bentleys Corners within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

8 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Bentleys Corners between 2019 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. None 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOMER FD 169 - 2019
19 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLITCHFIELD FD 2020-63 - 2020
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOMER FD 70 - 2019
6 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOMER FD 63 - 2020
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOMER FD 79 - 2020
28 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLITCHFIELD FD 2019-30 - 2019
27 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTEKONSHA FD 2019075 - 2019
25 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTEKONSHA FD 2019072 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun 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 Bentleys Corners: 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
Cole Bros Contractors, Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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
Clarendon1.9 miles12
Homer4.3 miles12
Tekonsha6.3 miles11
Eckford6.9 miles12
Condit7.3 miles12
Wrights Corners8.6 miles11
Babcock8.7 miles12
Burlington11.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 621133. 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.