BlockBingham, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bingham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49684. The Survey maps it on the Suttons Bay quadrangle.
On record in Bingham
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Bingham District No. 5 Schoolhouselisted 1991
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Suttons Bay quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
8 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Bingham between 1994 and 2019, burning about 59 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUTTONS BAY-BINGHAM FIRE & RESCUE AUTHORITY 000014 |
| 20 June 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 May 1996 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 May 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.1 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LEELANAU 01 |
| 12 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 44 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LEELANAU 01 - WALTERS RD |
| 31 December 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CEDAR FD 13649 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bingham: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Markham's Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bingham in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Hail | Bingham | - | Employees at the Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Station in the Leelanau Peninsula, northwest of Traverse City, MI, reported hail up to the size of golf balls, leading to damage of some cherry and apple orchards in the area, impacting sale of some fresh market apples as processing apples instead. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bingham | - | Mesonet station minwm 0.8 NE Bingham. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leelanau Shores | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Heimforth | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Hatchs | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Crystal Spring | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Fouch | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Keswick | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Isadore | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Cherry Bend | 5.8 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 621383. 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.