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Holy Corners, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Caledonia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49316. The Survey maps it on the Caledonia quadrangle.

Holy Corners within Kent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

44 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Holy Corners between 2005 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2

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
21 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGAINES TOWNSHIP/DUTTON FD 434 - 2019
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGAINES TOWNSHIP/DUTTON FD 336 - 2018
2 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALEDONIA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 517 - 2020
19 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use40 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALEDONIA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 648 - 2019
10 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGAINES TOWNSHIP/DUTTON FD 370 - 2019
1 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALEDONIA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 512 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Holy Corners: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Currie and Duncan Lake MarlLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holy Corners in 2 storm reports in 2021: 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
August 2021Thunderstorm WindHoly Corners$100,000Wind gusts to around 60 mph brought down several trees and tree limbs and power lines.
September 2021HailHoly Corners-An NWS employee reported one inch diameter hail.

Every storm recorded in Kent 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
Caledonia1.6 miles15
Labarge2.1 miles12
Alaska3.2 miles12
Dutton3.7 miles15
Whitneyville5.5 miles12
McCords5.8 miles12
Cascade7.1 miles13
East Paris7.1 miles16

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 Q122571433The 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 628467. 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.