BlockCoral, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Maple Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49322. The Survey maps it on the Coral quadrangle. It stands 922 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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 Howard City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Coral quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Coral between 1992 and 2019, burning about 130 acres in total. 3 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 | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| 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 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MAPLE VALLEY TWP FIRE DEPARTMENT 0001936 - 2019 |
| 8 May 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.5 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | CABIN FIRE |
| 7 May 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 1994 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LAKEVIEW DISTRICT FD 0000061 - 2019 |
| 4 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MAPLE VALLEY TWP FIRE DEPARTMENT 2019019 - 2019 |
| 3 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MAPLE VALLEY TWP FIRE DEPARTMENT 0000018 - 2019 |
| 26 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MAPLE VALLEY TWP FIRE DEPARTMENT 2019021 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coral in 1 storm report in 2020: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coral | $50,000 | Several power lines and trees were blown down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howard City | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Maple Hill | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Trufant | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Hiram | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Amble | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Pierson | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Lakeview | 8.9 miles | 13 | |
| Langston | 9.1 miles | 11 |
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 Coral | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q124744579 | The 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 623816. 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.
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.