Kings Landing, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1970. It stands in Sodus Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49126. It stands on Pipestone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Benton Harbor quadrangle.

Kings Landing within Berrien County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1927 USGS Benton Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1930 USGS Benton Harbor quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Benton Harbor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

26 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Kings Landing between 2018 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined	11
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6

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 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON HARBOR FD 293 - 2020
22 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON HARBOR FD 238 - 2019
19 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000425 - 2019
11 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000409 - 2019
8 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000339 - 2019
30 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LINCOLN TOWNSHIP 123 - 2020
11 July 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON HARBOR FD 185 - 2018
27 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON HARBOR FD 170 - 2019

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sodus	1.5 miles	10
Oxbow	1.6 miles	11
Scottdale	2.0 miles	11
Buckhorn	2.9 miles	11
Hollywood	3.7 miles	11
Shanghai Corners	3.7 miles	10
Pearl Grange	3.9 miles	10
Arden	4.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 629715. 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.