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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1932 USGS Garden NE quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Garden quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Manistique quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Garden Corners quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
13 since 1998Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | RED GREEN |
| 4 August 1998 | Other causes | 1.0 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | BARN |
| 27 July 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | REST AREA |
| 7 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | LL FIRE |
| 31 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 41 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.7 acres | Hiawatha National Forest | HOSS |
| 2 May 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | INWOOD TOWNSHIP FD 0000008 - 2020 |
| 12 May 2017 | Other causes | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LOG CABIN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Garden Corners | $3,000 | Brief tornado touchdown left pine trees 15-20 inches in diameter uprooted. A camp suffered structural damage to small building. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden Corners | $1,000 | A 18-inch diameter spruce tree and a ten-inch diameter cedar tree were felled by the storm. |
| December 2015 | Heavy Rain | Garden 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 2013 | Heavy Rain | Garden 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 2004 | Hail | Garden Corners | - | Nickle sized hail was reported. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isabella | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Nahma | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Garden | 8.0 miles | 10 | |
| Nahma Junction | 9.1 miles | 10 | |
| Saint Jacques | 10.9 miles | 10 | |
| Devils Corner | 11.1 miles | 9 | |
| Ogontz | 13.6 miles | 9 | |
| Fayette | 13.8 miles | 9 |
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 Q122569599 | 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 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.






