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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.

Cooks Corners within Ionia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

27 since 1992

Regional 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 use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
26 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minor4.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELDING FD 0000830 - 2019
4 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELDING FD 0000763 - 2018
9 May 1993Recreation and ceremony18 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHERIDAN COMMUNITY FD 2018040 - 2018
16 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELDING FD 0000644 - 2019
9 April 1994Arson/incendiarism150 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ionia County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Harris PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pickett and Schreur Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shook PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wheeler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wheeler Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ionia County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011HailCooks Corners$4,000,000Trained 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 2023Thunderstorm WindCooks Corners$5,000Several trees were blown down.
March 2025Tornado (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.

Every storm recorded in Ionia 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
Belding1.9 miles10
Smyrna2.0 miles10
Orleans6.9 miles10
Shiloh9.5 miles10
Woods Corners10.0 miles10
Saranac11.3 miles12
Ionia12.3 miles12
South Ionia13.1 miles12

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.