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Brookfield, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Brookfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48813. The Survey maps it on the Duck Lake quadrangle.

Brookfield within Eaton County

On record in Brookfield

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Brookfield between 2018 and 2019, burning about 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRINGPORT/CLARENCE TWP. FD 185 - 2019
12 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRINGPORT/CLARENCE TWP. FD 171 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEATON RAPIDS FD 128 - 2019
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAMLIN TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000056 - 2018
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEATON RAPIDS TWP FD 186 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eaton 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 Brookfield: 1 prospect. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fc Hunt Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Eaton County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookfield in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$1,000,000The bow echo impacted mainly rural areas of Brookfield and Hamlin Townships. The damage path, which was 8 miles long and up to 1 mile in width, was an extension of the damage path seen in Calhoun county. Hundreds of trees were either uprooted or snapped, and a half of a dozen farms received property damage.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$5,000Eaton County Central Dispatch reported trees were downed in Brookfield Township.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$2,500Thunderstorm winds downed trees at the intersection of Spicerville Highway and Brookfield Road in Brookfield Township.
September 2008Tornado (EF0)Brookfield-Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted from the tornado. A home sustained damage when a tree fell on it. Debris, including outdoor furniture, was tossed into a nearby cornfield.

Every storm recorded in Eaton 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
Five Points Corner4.5 miles10
Charlesworth5.7 miles12
Olivet6.8 miles14
Ainger7.6 miles14
Charlotte8.0 miles10
Eaton Rapids8.5 miles13
Petrieville11.0 miles13
Carlisle11.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 622031. 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.