Cooks Corners, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Otisco Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48809. The Survey maps it on the Smyrna quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
27 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Cooks Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 214 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 August 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 4.2 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BELDING FD 0000830 - 2019 |
| 4 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BELDING FD 0000763 - 2018 |
| 9 May 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 18 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SHERIDAN COMMUNITY FD 2018040 - 2018 |
| 16 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BELDING FD 0000644 - 2019 |
| 9 April 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 150 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Cooks Corners: 6 producers. All of them 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Harris Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pickett and Schreur Inc Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Shook Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Wheeler Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Wheeler Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cooks Corners in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Hail | Cooks Corners | $4,000,000 | Trained spotters reported that a severe thunderstorm produced hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter on the northeast side of Belding. The swath was up to one mile wide and was part of the swath that began in extreme northeast Ottawa County based on correlation with spotter reports and radar hail products. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooks Corners | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down. |
| March 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Cooks Corners | - | Several farm or outbuildings sustained damage with a couple of homes |seeing siding or roofing damage. A number of trees were also knocked |down or has large snapped branches/small trunks along the path. This |tornado lifted off less than one-tenth of a mile into Montcalm |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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belding | 1.9 miles | 10 | |
| Smyrna | 2.0 miles | 10 | |
| Orleans | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Shiloh | 9.5 miles | 10 | |
| Woods Corners | 10.0 miles | 10 | |
| Saranac | 11.3 miles | 12 | |
| Ionia | 12.3 miles | 12 | |
| South Ionia | 13.1 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 623753. 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.






