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Bethel, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bethel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49036. The Survey maps it on the Kinderhook quadrangle.

Bethel within Branch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

9 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Bethel between 2014 and 2020, burning about 166 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKELAND VFD 0018131 - 2018
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKELAND VFD 0019115 - 2019
14 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKELAND VFD 0019086 - 2019
6 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKELAND VFD 0020046 - 2020
21 April 2014Debris and open burning154 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRANCH 0001
20 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKELAND VFD 0018067 - 2018
16 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKELAND VFD 0019047 - 2019
28 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRONSON FD 0000097 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Branch 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 Bethel: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Harmon Marl QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Branch 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
Hatmaker2.7 miles9
East Gilead3.5 miles9
West Kinderhook3.7 miles9
Lockwood3.7 miles10
Kinderhook4.4 miles9
Pearl Beach4.7 miles10
Gilead4.9 miles10
Crystal Beach5.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1625051. 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.