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Doughertys Corners, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Oshtemo Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49009. The Survey maps it on the Kalamazoo SW quadrangle.

Doughertys Corners within Kalamazoo County

On record in Doughertys Corners

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

34 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Doughertys Corners between 2018 and 2020, burning about 36 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 use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALAMO TOWNSHIP FD 19272 - 2019
6 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMATTAWAN FD 096 - 2020
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSHTEMO TOWNSHIP FD 1545 - 2018
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALAMAZOO DPS 0006282 - 2019
24 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSHTEMO TOWNSHIP FD 1462 - 2018
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP FD 0001069 - 2018
1 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTEXAS CHARTER TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000523 - 2019
6 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSHTEMO TOWNSHIP FD 1162 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Doughertys Corners: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Shield Brother's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Bynre PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kalamazoo County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peters Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ravine Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Oshtemo3.3 miles18
Westwood4.4 miles18
Alamo5.5 miles17
Oakwood5.8 miles20
Texas Corners6.7 miles15
Kalamazoo6.9 miles20
Northwood7.2 miles20
Cooper7.9 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122555673The 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 624822. 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.