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Campbells Corners, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in West Branch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48661. It stands on Little Klacking Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Branch quadrangle.

Campbells Corners within Ogemaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Campbells Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 166 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 burning17
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2007Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2001Debris and open burning5.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2012Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOGEMAW 24 - CRYSTAL RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ogemaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Campbells Corners: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Glancy Ogemaw County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ogemaw County No 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Steen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
West Branch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ogemaw County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Campbells Corners in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 2 hail, 2 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
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Campbells Corners$75,000The tornado touched down near intersection of M-33 and Sage Lake Road, and lifted about a mile to the northeast. Several farms and residences suffered roof damage, some outbuildings were also damaged, and a number of trees and large limbs were downed.
August 2018Tornado (EF1)Campbells Corners$65,000A brief tornado with maximum winds of 100 mph touched down 4 miles northeast of West Branch, crossing Mud Lake Road. Damage was mostly confined to two homes on the east side of Mud Lake Road.
August 2015HailCampbells Corners-no account filed
June 2008HailCampbells Corners-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ogemaw 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
Selkirk4.2 miles10
West Branch5.5 miles11
Fayettes Corner7.0 miles11
Camp Lu Lay Lea7.5 miles10
Rose City7.6 miles11
Ogemaw Springs7.8 miles10
Elbow Lake8.9 miles9
Greenwood9.5 miles9

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 Q21551191The 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 622670. 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.