Cooks Mill, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Pavilion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49034. The Survey maps it on the Adams Park quadrangle.

Cooks Mill within Kalamazoo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1918 USGS Leonidas quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Leonidas quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Leonidas quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Leonidas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Adams Park quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Kalamazoo quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

22 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Cooks Mill between 2018 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	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
31 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PAVILION TOWNSHIP FD 0000289 - 2019
27 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 262 - 2020
26 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 260 - 2020
12 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PAVILION TOWNSHIP FD 0000273 - 2019
6 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	COMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0000840 - 2018
30 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 225 - 2020
2 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLIMAX TOWNSHIP FD 0000079 - 2019
13 July 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PAVILION TOWNSHIP FD 0000238 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Scotts	1.8 miles	14
Collins Corner	3.2 miles	14
Pavillion Center	3.3 miles	14
Pomeroy	3.6 miles	14
Pavilion	3.8 miles	14
Galesburg	4.7 miles	21
Climax	4.9 miles	14
Lawndale	5.0 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617499. 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.