California, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in California Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49255. The Survey maps it on the California quadrangle.

California within Branch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS California quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of California between 2002 and 2020, burning about 30 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 use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	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
9 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LAKELAND VFD 0019114 - 2019
8 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRANCH 01 - MUCK LAKE FIRE
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CAMDEN FIRE/RESCUE 0201820 - 2018
8 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LAKELAND VFD 0019043 - 2019
9 March 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 34 - 2020
27 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 38 - 2019
15 November 2002	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Algansee	2.5 miles	10
Ray	2.6 miles	11
Canada Shores	4.3 miles	10
Sans Souci Beach	5.2 miles	10
Crystal Beach	5.4 miles	10
Pearl Beach	5.8 miles	10
Fisher	6.1 miles	10
Kinderhook	6.5 miles	9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q8255269

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 622459. 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.