Fenwick, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fairplain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48834. The Survey maps it on the Sheridan quadrangle. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Fenwick within Montcalm County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Fenwick between 1994 and 2019, burning about 80 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	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
22 July 1996	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHERIDAN COMMUNITY FD 2019060 - 2019
27 June 2012	Fireworks	6.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MONTCALM 01
8 May 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHERIDAN COMMUNITY FD 2018043 - 2018
29 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ORLEANS TOWNSHIP FD 0000067 - 2018
22 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHERIDAN COMMUNITY FD 2019042 - 2019
22 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHERIDAN COMMUNITY FD 2018032 - 2018
2 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHERIDAN COMMUNITY FD 2019038 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montcalm County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fenwick in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Fenwick	$25,000	Several large trees and limbs were blown down. Several power lines were also blown down and there was minor damage to a residence two miles south of Sheridan in Montcalm county.
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Fenwick	$10,000	An emergency manager reported that several trees and limbs were blown down.
May 2003	Hail	Fenwick	$10,000	One inch hail was reported about twelve miles north of the city of Ionia, or near Fenwick.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Fenwick	-	A trained spotter reported peak wind gusts to 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Montcalm 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
Amsden	2.7 miles	10
Sheridan	4.4 miles	10
Vickeryville	6.8 miles	11
Kings Corner	6.9 miles	10
Eureka Place	7.0 miles	10
Sidney	7.5 miles	11
Butternut	9.0 miles	11
Greenville	9.3 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 Fenwick	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q124744555	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 625898. 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.