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Canada Corners, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Casnovia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49318. The Survey maps it on the Casnovia quadrangle.

Canada Corners within Muskegon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Canada Corners between 1992 and 2019, burning about 14 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHESTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000070 - 2018
31 May 1992Debris and open burning5.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKENT CITY-TYRONE TWP FD 0000133 - 2019
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCASNOVIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000053 - 2019
11 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKENT CITY-TYRONE TWP FD 0000086 - 2019
27 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKENT CITY-TYRONE TWP FD 0000082 - 2019
21 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKENT CITY-TYRONE TWP FD 0000070 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskegon 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 Canada Corners: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 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
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Muskegon Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ottawa County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yerington Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Muskegon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canada Corners in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2007Thunderstorm WindCanada Corners$5,000A few trees were blown down by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Muskegon 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
Slocum3.3 miles13
Bailey3.6 miles12
Kellys Corners5.2 miles13
Ravenna5.6 miles13
Morland Corner7.3 miles13
Moorland7.4 miles13
Sullivan11.4 miles11
Wolf Lake13.9 miles10

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 Q122548467The 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 622673. 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.