BlockBefore

Little Paw Paw Lake, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1970. It stands in Coloma Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49038. The Survey maps it on the Coloma quadrangle.

Little Paw Paw Lake 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.

Fires near this place

42 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Little Paw Paw Lake between 2017 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 12 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 use19
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony4

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
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 142 - 2020
13 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERVLIET FD 322 - 2020
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 419 - 2019
9 July 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 100 - 2020
7 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 125 - 2018
8 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 106 - 2019
22 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERVLIET FD 189 - 2019
12 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 109 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Little Paw Paw Lake: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Berrien Sand QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Garlanger SiteSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
Nadeau PitSilicaProducerSedimentary
Nadeau SiteSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
Rose PitSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Paw Paw Lake in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLittle Paw Paw Lake-A trained spotter reported a tree limb down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLittle Paw Paw Lake-Reports of many large trees down near Paw Paw Lake; roads are impassable.
September 2011HailLittle Paw Paw Lake-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Paw Paw Lake0.8 miles11
Watervliet2.6 miles11
Coloma2.6 miles11
Lake Michigan Beach4.5 miles11
Riverside5.8 miles10
Bainbridge Center7.2 miles10
Twelve Corners7.2 miles10
Millburg7.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 630720. 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.