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Corinth, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Byron Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49315. It lies near Dias Hill. The Survey maps it on the Cutlerville quadrangle.

Corinth within Kent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

31 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Corinth between 1996 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 1 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 use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Natural1

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
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBYRON TOWNSHIP FD 878 - 2020
12 September 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBYRON TOWNSHIP FD 857 - 2020
13 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDORR TOWNSHIP FD 0000107 - 2018
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGAINES TOWNSHIP/DUTTON FD 336 - 2018
25 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBYRON TOWNSHIP FD 665 - 2019
20 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBYRON TOWNSHIP FD 639 - 2019
19 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use40 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCUTLERVILLE FD 857 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent 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 Corinth: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Byron SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corinth in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 2 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 2021Tornado (EF0)Corinth$75,000A very small, brief, and weak tornado touched down in the Preservation Lakes subdivision in southern Kent county just south of Cutlerville and east of Byron Center in Gaines Township, causing damage to 6 to 12 homes. The NWS in Grand Rapids surveyed the damage. The most notable damage was a small portion of a roof torn off one home, some siding stripped off two homes, and a partially pushed in garage door. Security camera/doorbell video revealed that objects were lofted and carried through the air. At least two vehicles sustained damage from being struck by flying debris such as lawn chairs.
March 2025Tornado (EF0)Corinth-Damage path began near 100th and eastern and moved northeast before lifting east of Hanna Lake Avenue south of 84th street. Significant tree damage and a couple of outbuildings were damaged along the path.

Every storm recorded in Kent 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
Ross1.6 miles15
Carlisle3.2 miles15
Byron Center3.7 miles15
Cutlerville4.0 miles15
North Dorr5.3 miles9
North Byron5.6 miles15
Dutton5.8 miles15
Kentwood6.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 623834. 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.