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Garden Corners, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Garden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49817. The Survey maps it on the Garden Corners quadrangle.

Garden Corners within Delta 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.

Fires near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Garden Corners between 1998 and 2020, burning about 49 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Other causes2
Natural2
Smoking1

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
16 September 2005Naturalunder an acreHiawatha National ForestRED GREEN
4 August 1998Other causes1.0 acresHiawatha National ForestBARN
27 July 2019Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREST AREA
7 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresHiawatha National ForestLL FIRE
31 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined41 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.7 acresHiawatha National ForestHOSS
2 May 2020Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINWOOD TOWNSHIP FD 0000008 - 2020
12 May 2017Other causesunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLOG CABIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garden Corners in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 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
October 1997Tornado (F1)Garden Corners$3,000Brief tornado touchdown left pine trees 15-20 inches in diameter uprooted. A camp suffered structural damage to small building.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGarden Corners$1,000A 18-inch diameter spruce tree and a ten-inch diameter cedar tree were felled by the storm.
December 2015Heavy RainGarden Corners-Two-day rainfall totals across the county ranged generally between two and three inches with the highest totals reported near the Garden Peninsula.
July 2013Heavy RainGarden Corners-Approximate 24-hour rainfall measured 4.31 inches at Garden Corners. Over four inches of rainfall was also measured at Bark River during the same time period.
April 2004HailGarden Corners-Nickle sized hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Isabella3.7 miles10
Nahma7.5 miles9
Garden8.0 miles10
Nahma Junction9.1 miles10
Saint Jacques10.9 miles10
Devils Corner11.1 miles9
Ogontz13.6 miles9
Fayette13.8 miles9

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 Q122569599The 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 1619997. 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.