BlockKessington, Michigan
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mason Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49130. The Survey maps it on the Adamsville quadrangle.
On record in Kessington
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Mason District Number 5 Schoolhouselisted 1985 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 16 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.
- 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 Adamsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Kessington between 2018 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 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 | 12 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 487 - 2019 |
| 31 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 408 - 2020 |
| 15 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 301 - 2020 |
| 8 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 229 - 2020 |
| 2 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 215 - 2020 |
| 8 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 182 - 2019 |
| 7 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 161 - 2020 |
| 3 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 150 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union | 1.7 miles | 17 | |
| Allenton | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Adamsville | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Calvin Center | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Williamsville | 6.4 miles | 17 | |
| Eagle Lake Estates | 7.5 miles | 14 | |
| Brownsville | 7.6 miles | 16 | |
| Diamond Shores | 9.2 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 Q122572317 | 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 629627. 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.