Corey, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Newberg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49093. The Survey maps it on the Jones quadrangle.

Corey within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

1948 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1949 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jones quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Corey between 2018 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
21 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FABIUS PARK FD 141 - 2020
6 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002396 - 2019
25 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CONSTANTINE FD 0000124 - 2018
19 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FABIUS PARK FD 69 - 2020
27 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002393 - 2019
30 November 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002558 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Corey: 1 producer. 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
	St. Joseph County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corey in 1 storm report in 2018: 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
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Corey	-	Emergency management officials reported power lines down and arcing at several locations across the county. No details as to where trees, tree limbs or the wind gust brought them down.

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Jones	2.0 miles	16
Williamsville	6.0 miles	17
Vandalia	8.2 miles	16
Wakelee	8.4 miles	16
Marcellus	9.0 miles	12
Penn	9.8 miles	16
Union	9.8 miles	17
Calvin Center	10.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 623827. 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.