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.
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.
Powers Highway-Battle Creek Bridgelisted 2000 · 0.6 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1921 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1923 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Duck Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 | SPRINGPORT/CLARENCE TWP. FD 185 - 2019 |
| 12 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SPRINGPORT/CLARENCE TWP. FD 171 - 2019 |
| 3 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | EATON RAPIDS FD 128 - 2019 |
| 29 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HAMLIN TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000056 - 2018 |
| 28 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | EATON RAPIDS TWP FD 186 - 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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fc Hunt Clay Prospect | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookfield | $1,000,000 | The 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 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookfield | $5,000 | Eaton County Central Dispatch reported trees were downed in Brookfield Township. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookfield | $2,500 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees at the intersection of Spicerville Highway and Brookfield Road in Brookfield Township. |
| September 2008 | Tornado (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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Five Points Corner | 4.5 miles | 10 | |
| Charlesworth | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Olivet | 6.8 miles | 14 | |
| Ainger | 7.6 miles | 14 | |
| Charlotte | 8.0 miles | 10 | |
| Eaton Rapids | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Petrieville | 11.0 miles | 13 | |
| Carlisle | 11.4 miles | 11 |
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.







