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Hickory Corners, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Barry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49060. The Survey maps it on the Delton quadrangle.

Hickory Corners within Barry County

On record in Hickory Corners

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

22 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Corners between 2003 and 2020, burning about 72 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/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

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
18 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 278 - 2020
6 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 178 - 2020
10 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTON FD 0000221 - 2018
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUGUSTA-ROSS TWP FD 0000073 - 2019
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHICKORY CORNERS FD 0000048 - 2019
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined52 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARRY 01
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHICKORY CORNERS FD 0000069 - 2018
30 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hickory Corners: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Leonard Bros Clay PitClayPast Producer
Rieth-Riley Construction Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stoney Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Barry County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hickory Corners in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2004: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHickory Corners$50,000Several large trees which were greater than twenty inches in diameter were blown down three miles east of Hickory Corners, in Barry county.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindHickory Corners$10,000The public reported several trees were blown down two miles north of Hickory Corners.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindHickory Corners$5,000Two trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm wind gusts just west of Hickory Corners.
June 1998HailHickory Corners-no account filed
May 1997HailHickory Corners-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barry 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
Woodlawn Beach2.6 miles19
Turners Corner2.8 miles19
Delton4.4 miles19
Stony Point4.7 miles19
Banfield4.9 miles19
Cressey5.2 miles19
Cedar Creek6.0 miles12
Prairieville6.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 628188. 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.