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Chums Corners, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Blair Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49685. The Survey maps it on the Grawn quadrangle. 1,065 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 889 feet above sea level.

Chums Corners within Grand Traverse County

Population over time

2 figures

Chums Corners grew from 946 to 1,065 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010946
20201,065+119 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Chums Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1

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
30 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLAIR TOWNSHIP FD 0000213 - 2019
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE METRO FD 193174 - 2019
26 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE METRO FD 193152 - 2019
18 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 06
16 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 1996Recreation and ceremony3.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE METRO FD 182404 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Chums Corners: 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayProspect
Peters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Walton Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Grand Traverse 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
Grawn2.1 miles12
Hilltop4.2 miles12
Monroe Center4.6 miles12
Brookside4.9 miles12
Hannah6.1 miles12
Interlochen6.2 miles15
Traverse City6.6 miles12
Mayfield7.5 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on Chums CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5768505The 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 623278. 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.