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Five Mile Corners, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49047. The Survey maps it on the Twin Lakes quadrangle.

Five Mile Corners within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Five Mile Corners between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKEELER TOWNSHIP FIRE RESCUE 171 - 2019
7 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINDIAN LAKE VFD 2018025 - 2018
13 May 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSISTER LAKES FD 020-025 - 2020
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWAYNE TOWNSHIP FD 2018052 - 2018
27 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSISTER LAKES FD 018-034 - 2018
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAWTON FD 0000039 - 2018
9 March 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKEELER TOWNSHIP FIRE RESCUE 44 - 2020
22 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWAYNE TOWNSHIP FD 2018030 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Five Mile Corners: 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayProspect
Cass County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rudell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Silver Creek Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Five Mile Corners in 1 storm report in 2021: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2021Thunderstorm WindFive Mile Corners$8,000Six trees down across roadway. Two reports of power lines 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Maple Island3.7 miles10
Twin Lakes3.8 miles10
Glenwood3.9 miles10
Sandy Beach4.3 miles10
Dowagiac5.0 miles14
Indian Lake6.5 miles10
Beechwood6.5 miles10
La Grange7.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2109319. 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.