Jones, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Newberg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49061. The Survey maps it on the Jones quadrangle. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Jones within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

1948 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1949 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jones quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Jones between 2018 and 2019, burning about 15 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 use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002396 - 2019
3 April 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002395 - 2019
25 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CONSTANTINE FD 0000124 - 2018
27 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002393 - 2019
26 December 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PENN TOWNSHIP FD 0000107 - 2018
30 November 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002558 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jones in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Jones	$20,000	The Cass County Road Commission reported numerous trees downed in the Birch Lake area of Porter Township, resulting in about 3,000 power outages there. Trees were reported downed south of Michigan Highway 60 along Michigan Highway 40 in Porter Township.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Jones	$10,000	County dispatch reports trees and powerlines down across the county.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Jones	$10,000	Several trees and power lines were reported blown down.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Jones	$2,500	Cass Central Dispatch reported trees downed near Jones.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Jones	-	Sporadic tree damage reported by emergency management officials between Cassopolis to Jones.
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Jones	-	A trained spotter reported a large tree was blown down onto a local road.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Jones	-	A trained spotter reported three trees were blown down, with two of them onto vehicles.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Jones	-	A trained spotter reported seven power poles were snapped. Other damage included the roof torn off a small shed and several center pivots being damaged. A snowmobile trailer was lifted and then tossed 100 yards.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Jones	-	Trained spotters reported multiple trees down two miles north of US 12, on Highway 40.
August 2011	Hail	Jones	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Corey	2.0 miles	16
Williamsville	4.2 miles	17
Vandalia	6.2 miles	16
Wakelee	7.0 miles	16
Penn	7.9 miles	16
Calvin Center	8.2 miles	16
Brownsville	8.4 miles	16
Spring Beach	8.4 miles	16

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 Q136346980

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 629362. 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.