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Gordon Beach, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1983. It stands in New Buffalo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49129. It stands on South Branch Galien River. The Survey maps it on the New Buffalo East quadrangle.

Gordon Beach within Berrien County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

18 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Gordon Beach between 2018 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 8 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
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHREE OAKS FD 0000035 - 2019
27 September 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 175 - 2020
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 134 - 2020
22 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 143 - 2019
8 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 75 - 2019
7 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 74 - 2019
22 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 193 - 2019
5 April 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 100 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien 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
Union Pier0.6 miles13
Lakeview0.7 miles13
Sokol Camp1.3 miles13
Hooks Corner1.8 miles13
Lakeside2.4 miles13
Turner Shores3.2 miles13
New Buffalo3.2 miles13
Harbert5.0 miles13

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 Q122595524The 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 626988. 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.